Lynn Buffington

Ohioan

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

Glad Dems held the line; Americans don’t want more funding for ICE and CBP. Their abuses must be addressed legislatively. Dems voted to fund TSA numerous times, but R’s wouldn’t do it unless they got more money for ICE and CBP. #ICEOUT #CommunitiesNotCages

[Ilya Sheyman @iSheyman]

Glad this crisis of Trump’s own making is over. And it’s abundantly clear @SenateDems were right to reject throwing billions more at the overfunded and out of control ICE and CBP.

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

Democrats have offered bills to fund TSA, the Coast Guard, and FEMA again and again and AGAIN.

We’ve been blocked by Republicans every single time.

Republicans need to get serious about funding these critical agencies.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

A chilling story leading the Minneapolis Star Tribune this morning this morning. ICE agents followed Minnesota Democratic lawmakers who had been critical of ICE in the state, stopping multiple times to take pictures of their houses. This is what a police state does

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

Act now @RepMikeTurner @berniemoreno @SenJonHusted Read Chef Jose Andres for on the ground, nonpartisan info on what is needed and why!

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

In today’s @nytimes, our founder @chefjoseandres reports on what our team is witnessing in Gaza: communities cut off from food, families doing everything they can to hold on.

But he also writes about what’s possible.

World Central Kitchen aims to prepare one million meals a day in Gaza. That means building five large kitchens in safe zones, places where food can be delivered, cooked, and shared without fear.

Because even in the hardest moments, people deserve the dignity of a warm meal. And when access to food is taken away, we believe the world has a responsibility to respond.

Read José’s op-ed: https://t.co/l3jq94RRiE
#ChefsForGaza #ChefsForThePeople

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

@RepMikeTurner Like the vast majority of Ohioans, I do not want cuts to human services and unnecessary increases in the deficit in order to give tax cuts to the wealthy and to  continue and escalate disappearances, fees, detention and deportation of immigrants. Vote non on HR1

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

The Big Not-Beautiful Bill steals health care & nutrition from children, using the "savings" to deport our neighbors and expand tax cuts for billionaires. Please @SenJonHusted vote no and/or support amendments to stop cuts to human services, stop renewal of tax cuts for the rich

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

Save countless lives. @GovMikeDeWine @MikeDeWine VETO the Medicaid trigger language from the state budget. Save Medicaid expansion! Low income adults need health care to keep working and support their families! Kids need healthy parents! Rural hospitals need insured patients.

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

The current administration is more and more outrageous in attacking immigrants and its abuse of the #ruleoflaw and #DueProcess Here the administration plans to free the guilty in order to save face for its mistaken abduction of Kilmar Abrego . #CommunitiesNotCages #HomeIsHere

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The Trump admin has "boldly announc[ed] that Mr. Abrego 'will not walk free in our country again.' The government has done so while allowing a cooperator with two felony convictions and five prior deportations to be released from a 30-month sentence for human smuggling."

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

@berniemoreno As your constituent, I urge you to oppose any budget reconciliation that ends vital health, education, & nutrition programs for families & communities throughout the country while putting hundreds of billions of dollars toward jailing and abducting immigrants.

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

Unacceptable!

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

This is absolutely outrageous. This is a US Senator — full stop. To treat him like this is beyond the pale and the mark of an authoritarian regime.

If they can do this to a sitting Senator, just think about what they can do to you. Absolutely no one should be treated this way.

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

Thank you @SenBooker #HomeIsHere #CommunitiesNotCages #ProtectDontDeport #RightsNotWalls #OhioIsHome #ohnoyoudont #ImmigrantsAreEssential #immigrantsmakeamericagreat #DueProcess

[Sen. Cory Booker @SenBooker]

The Trump administration called it an “administrative error.” But that error led to a nightmare for Maryland Resident Abrego Garcia.

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

I #standupforscience2025
https://t.co/3I4YcPJoYt for more on the 3 goals
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #sciencesaveslives #stemsaveslives #thereisnoplanetb #curiosity #fun
#thankyouscience from a retired chemist, cancer survivor % mom of 2 well-vaccinated kids

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

The Laken Riley Act is horrendous. Please reach many senator in 10 seconds by adding your name to Raice's petition at https://t.co/KrjJ5PzWOd Contact your own senators if you have a few more minutes at https://t.co/RJvONa8olC

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

In the United States, even noncitizens are innocent until proven guilty, and it's the president who decides whether to sanction countries and cut legal immigration, not single judge at the request of a single state.

The Laken Riley Act could change all of that.

4/5

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

Thank you @RepChuyGarcia ! @SenSchumer @SenTimKaine : #VoteNo on #LakenRileyAct, HR 29 and S.5 . It strips due process: requiring the indefinite detention without any bail or bond of many immigrants who are arrested for nonviolent shoplifting but never even charged!

[Congressman Chuy García @RepChuyGarcia]

My Statement on House Vote on the Laken Riley Act.

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

#LakenRileyAct, HR 29 and S.5, isn’t about public safety—it’s a backdoor to mass detention and deportation. It targets DACA recipients, strips due process, and tears apart immigrant families. Senators, stand for justice, protect communities: #VoteNo @SenSchumer @SenTimKaine

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

Rep. Ansari's statement on House vote on the Laken Riley Act.

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

#LakenRileyAct, HR 29 and S.5, isn’t about public safety—it’s a backdoor to mass detention and deportation. It targets DACA recipients, strips due process, and tears apart immigrant families. Senators, stand for justice, protect communities: #VoteNo @SenSchumer @SenTimKaine

[Shea Jordan Smith @sheajordansmith]

Laken Riley’s murder was a heartbreaking tragedy, but using her name to push a law that obliterates due process and undermines core American values is wrong.

This Act isn’t just bad policy—it’s an assault on the presumption of innocence and due process of our justice system.

[Rep. Veronica Escobar @RepEscobar]

The murder of Laken Riley was a horrible tragedy.

Today, I voted against a bill that shares her name, and I wanted to explain why 👇🏽

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

Join them please, @SenSherrodBrown. Join Senators Cortez Masto, Alex Padilla & Ben Ray Lujan in calling on @POTUS to grant and extend TPS for Ecuador, Nicaragua & El Salvador, expedite DACA renewals & advance parole requests and expand H1-B for DACA. #ImmigrantsMakeAmericaGreat

[Lynn Buffington @LynnBuff]

.@GovParsonMO Do the right thing. Stop the execution of #MarcellusWilliams before it's too late. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell filed a motion to vacate Marcellus’ conviction because forensic evidence excluded Marcellus from the crime.
#SaveMarcellus

[Omar Baddar عمر بدّار @OmarBaddar]

There's something so jarring about hearing the resolve of the DNC against gun violence on behalf of American children, while the Party's leadership continues to send guns & bombs to the Israeli military to slaughter & orphan 10,000s of innocent Palestinian children. #DNC2024