Dawn Bergantino

Relapsing Rhode Islander. Red Sox fan. Liberal Dem. Disappointed Idealist. After years in DC, happy to be back in the Ocean State. Yes, really.
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[Dawn Bergantino @Rhody_Gurl]

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

You are both lying. I was a consultant to that commission. They did not demand a kind of ID that resulted of in a poll tax. They did not require voters to re-register in person with proof of citizenship, much less ask married women who changed their names to jump through hoops.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

And they did not have any other draconian voter suppression means that would disenfranchise millions of duly registered citizens, like you have thrown into the same act as you try and mislead people into believing this is just about a simple voter ID.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Just a reminder: Cassidy refused to meet with Epstein survivors before his vote.

Prevented staff from it as well.

Courage huh

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on - if your position is that the president of the United States and his family should be immune from IRS scrutiny, you’re unqualified to be the Attorney General.

It’s an indictment on our entire system that 50 GOP Senators don’t agree.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Buried in Trump's bill: a NINE YEAR ban on improving the programs that help seniors afford Medicare premiums.

CBO scored it as $66 billion in "savings."

That's not savings. That's $66 billion taken from seniors who can't afford their pills.

#RepublicansCutMedicare

[Maggie Fox maggie.34 @maggiemfox]

Everyone over 65 who voted MAGA take note

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump is using the power of the government regulatory state to coerce companies into turning over huge ownership stakes in their businesses to the federal government while calling Democrats communists.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Trump, Hegseth, Caine, the first people in a very long time to lose a war quickly. VIetnam and the ME wars took a while, and in the case of Iraq its a better place now, even though not worth the sacrifice.

But this team? No one else to blame: they lost in record time

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Todd Blanche having his conformation vote at 4:00 AM tells you everything you need to know about how Republicans in Congress operate. They reserve their most toxic moves for the dead of night.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

We have an administration that lies. It lies habitually, and it lies reflexively. It refuses to level with the American people about the problems that it faces because it wants everyone to believe that everything is going fine and we’re in a “Golden Age.” Since the start of the war, the president, his cabinet, and other officials have insisted that the U.S. stockpiles of air-defense missiles and other critical munitions had never been higher or better and were virtually unlimited. Every time a report came out contending the opposite — often with fairly specific ranges of remaining munitions — the administration insisted it was a damnable lie.

[Mimi Rocah @Mimirocah1]

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[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Medicaid is vastly misunderstood. Much of it goes to hospitals, kept afloat by it. Most importantly, nearly 2/3 of residence of nursing homes in America are there because of Medicaid. The huge cuts taking effect next year will cause hospital closings and mayhem for seniors.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Starting with McConnell and continuing with Thune, we have seen the bait and switch game where Collins and Murkowski vote against something to take a performative stance— only so long as it won’t make a difference. If it does, like with Kavanaugh, one of them switches to a yes.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

So @BillCassidy dared to claim “progress on human trafficking” as a reason to vote for Blanche. Blanche. Who has blocked the Epstein files release and given Gislane Maxwell plush accommodations.

Also Cassidy refused to meet with the Epstein victims

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill.

Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.

The latest deal hands a foreign energy company $1.2 billion to abandon offshore wind projects off New York, California, and Louisiana.

And we've seen them pull this scam before. They paid a company nearly $1 billion to invest in gas projects, and it turned out the company was already planning to make those investments anyway. Trump got nothing for you in return.

He hates wind power so much that he has now spent nearly $4 billion of your money making it disappear.

Twelve leases canceled, billions of taxpayer dollars gone, and power for millions of homes wiped away just like that.

You’re paying for this twice: once when the government spends your tax dollars to block the cheapest energy available, and again on your electric bill when utilities have no choice but to keep running expensive coal instead.
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[Dawn Bergantino @Rhody_Gurl]

@PenguinSix #idiot

[Dawn Bergantino @Rhody_Gurl]

@benshapiro You must have been asleep for the past 35 years

[Dawn Bergantino @Rhody_Gurl]

@atrupar Is that the new math?

[Dawn Bergantino @Rhody_Gurl]

@SarahLongwell25 Like most of the current GOP

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

He thought it was so foolish he stole $1.7 billion from it.