René Spellman

Recovering ballerina, rower, campaign manager. Alum @berniesanders @caa, #Obama44 @randallwoodfin @frankscottjr. @Stanford AKA.

[Rep. Steven Horsford @RepHorsford]

AFSCME President Lee Saunders is the embodiment of public service. He dedicated 50 years of his life to representing public service workers across America, including the last 14 years as President, because he knows, "Working people coming together to raise their collective voice is one unstoppable force."

His leadership will continue to inspire us to organize, mobilize, and fight for working people and public services.

https://t.co/yGCbosvFTl

[Rep. Steven Horsford @RepHorsford]

I agree with @SenSanders and that’s exactly why I’m introducing this amendment in the House.

It is outrageous to hand ICE a $75 billion increase while pushing through the largest health care cuts in history.

My amendment redirects those funds to restore the health care Republicans slashed in their so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”

Our responsibility is clear: invest in health care, protect families, and save lives — not pour billions into policies that divide communities and make working people less secure.

[René Spellman @ReneDontPlay]

@DwightHoward @ServiceYear @GovWesMoore

[René Spellman @ReneDontPlay]

“If it was a plan, if it was always the plan, how is this not market manipulation?” @RepHorsford asked.

How it all went down:

[PBS News @NewsHour]

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer was in the middle of his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee when President Donald Trump announced that he was pausing his new tariffs on most nations for 90 days.

The president also announced he was raising tariffs on Chinese imports to 125%.

Minutes later, Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., asked Greer whether he knew this pause was under discussion. He blasted the Trump official for either withholding information about the incoming strategy or being completely unaware of it.

“W-T-F! Who’s in charge?” Horsford exclaimed.

“It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you and paused the tariffs, the taxes on the American people. There’s no strategy. You just found out three seconds ago, sitting here, we saw you,” he added.

Greer defended his testimony, saying that he doesn’t disclose his conversations with the president.

“These are real consequences for the American people and small businesses. I had a group of small businesses in my office earlier today talking about the impacts of these tariffs on aluminum and steel. This is amateur hour, and it needs to stop,” the lawmaker responded.

Horsford detailed some of the effects for American consumers from the recent market turmoil caused by the threat of major global tariffs — including losses to retirement funds and college savings funds, and consequences for small businesses.

“If it was a plan, if it was always the plan, how is this not market manipulation?” Horsford asked.

“It's not market manipulation, sir,” Greer said.

“It is not a strategy,” Horsford added.

“We're trying to reset the global trade system,” Greer responded.

Trump said in his Truth Social post that he was authorizing a pause because more than 75 countries had reached out to negotiate trade deals, and that those countries had not retaliated against his moves. The president also said he was lowering reciprocal tariffs to 10% for those countries “effective immediately.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Trump’s global trade war a “successful negotiating strategy” in remarks at the White House after the announcement.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Trump's Trade Rep appeared to learn about the 90-day tariff pause in the middle of a House hearing. Rep. Steven Horsford grilled him immediately:

"Is this market manipulation? Who benefits? What billionaire benefits from this?"

[Plain Blaine @bringtheblaine]

HOLY SHIT.

Go Horsford!

He illustrates perfectly that Trump NEVER had a plan with the tariffs.

[René Spellman @ReneDontPlay]

Congratulations @StevenHorsford!!

[AP Race Calls @AP_RaceCalls]

BREAKING: Democrat Steven Horsford wins reelection to U.S. House in Nevada's 4th Congressional District. #APRaceCall at 2:36 p.m. EST. https://t.co/FjgpZFcJ4E

[AP Race Calls @AP_RaceCalls]

BREAKING: Democrat Steven Horsford wins reelection to U.S. House in Nevada's 4th Congressional District. #APRaceCall at 2:36 p.m. EST. https://t.co/FjgpZFcJ4E

[René Spellman @ReneDontPlay]

@randallwoodfin 😍😍

[cherry 🍒 @Alexzand3rr]

Me on the way to the polls to vote in November:

[NAACP @NAACP]

"I know what a #BlackJob is. It's Vice President of the United States." —@POTUS boldly declares at the NAACP National Convention.

#NAACPConvention

[René Spellman @ReneDontPlay]

@FrankLuntz Significantly consequential in the regulation of assault rifles, we hope.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

We need a strong agenda that benefits working families and not just wealthy campaign contributors.

The American people want change. It will either be the change of Trump’s reactionary and xenophobic policies, or change that benefits working families.

[Jeremy Slevin @jeremyslevin]

New @BernieSanders statement on the presidential race.

[I Smoked Doomsdale @BlackKnight10k]

If this aint an advertisement for getting a good night sleep. Man took a nap, grabbed a cup of coffee, and sliced Trump to pieces like John Wick but if he was being played by Liam Neeson

[Renee @PettyLupone]

So you mean to tell me that Biden went to Atlanta for the debate, stayed up all night at the Waffle House, flew to NC the next day and went OFF at a rally, and then went to NYC to stand up for the LGBTQ community at a Stonewall event with Elton John?!?!
https://t.co/vjlw97WueV

[René Spellman @ReneDontPlay]

#badadvance

[Battle Born Progress @BattleBornProg]

Count those “comfort measures” as yet another big lie from the Trump campaign.

[Steven Horsford @StevenHorsford]

Shot Chaser

[Rep. Steven Horsford @RepHorsford]

Elon Musk wants to talk about DEI?

I want to talk about ending the tax subsidies to billionaires that discriminate.