Good morning from the only place on earth where you can cut heath insurance for 17 million people, still somehow add $5 trillion to the debt, and call that a big accomplishment. 😒

If you are trying to keep up with Trump’s tariff strategy… there is no strategy.

This aged well. Unfortunately.

If Nancy Pelosi decides to run again, challenging her in a primary, from either the left or center, would be a profoundly stupid use of time and resources. We save democracy by defeating *Republicans* in the midterms. That’s the assignment. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

Louder for the people in the back: Members of Congress shouldn’t be trading stocks—period. My Trust in Congress Act will ban it once and for all. Let’s get it passed.

🚨 JUST wrapped an urgent press conference on Trump & Musk’s plan to gut the Department of Education. Fewer teachers. Bigger classes. Less funding for RI schools. Unacceptable. The richest people in the world cannot be allowed to cut education to pay for their tax cuts.

Not even six hours apart.

Most of the critical minerals that we need for cell phones, medical devices, laptops, & more are found in developing world countries. Yet another reason why Trump & Musk’s cruel dismantling of USAID is just plain stupid. Watch my @naturalresources.bsky.social hearing remarks: youtu.be/Akzgwu2lAYc

A lot of this happening.

Just wrapped up emergency meeting with RI environmental leaders in response to Trump & Musk illegally cutting off funding. They are waging a war on affordable clean energy, threatening local jobs, the environment, and the planet's future—but we’re fighting back.

Donald Trump is letting the richest man in the world rip away food and medicine from the poorest kids in the world.

Yesterday, we tried to get into the US Treasury to find out what Elon Musk is doing with the people’s money and data. We were locked out, but this is just the beginning. The people deserve transparency and oversight. 📷: @evymages.bsky.social / @washingtonian.bsky.social

Update: I and dozens of other Members of Congress were denied a meeting at the US Treasury today. But while we were trying to get in something awesome happened. Thousands of people began filling the streets. Americans are not going to let Elon steal their money and data.

Heading to the US Treasury with @JasminForUS to ask for a meeting with the unelected, unvetted Elon lackeys who have taken control of the Treasury payments system. We need answers.

Despite Marjorie’s best efforts, 80% of Congress voted to fund USAID. President Musk has no legal ground to shut down an agency Congress overwhelmingly voted to fund.

FBI agents being purged just for doing their jobs and investigating the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol. Elon Musk’s lackeys with no vetting demanding access to classified info. The Senate needs to bring Kash Petel and Pam Bondi in for additional public questioning before any votes.

Donald Trump threw the country into chaos this week. People have a lot of questions. Time for us to do another “Ask Me Anything” on Instagram. Submit your Qs now. I’ll answer the first 10 tomorrow morning.

Told you.

100% yes.

Literally the first thing the federal government is required to do in the Constitution

Trump and the Billionaire Bros said their funding freeze wouldn’t include lifesaving aid. They lied. If the freeze is not reversed immediately, thousands of people including children will die for no good reason. Trump needs to end this madness now. t.co/sGUM6Aex6N

They are back-tracking because we spoke up. Good. But make no mistake: their OMB memo ordered a freeze of *all* grants. The Medicaid and SNAP portals went dark. Head Start providers couldn't draw funds. This was not a coincidence. It was their plan. And they screwed up bigly.

President Trump just released an extreme and illegal order to freeze all federal funding for transportation, education, disaster relief & more. Where are House Republicans? Waking up after having a big party at the Trump’s Doral Resort in Florida. Talk about being out of touch.

This morning’s thought: The chattering class thinks that Trump is not *actually* going to do massive tariffs. They say he can’t possibly mean it because prices will go up and businesses will hate it. It’s just bluster or a series of negotiating tactics. They’re all wrong. He means it. Thread:

🚨🚨We just got our hands on the document Trump & the Republicans have been circulating w/ plans to RAISE taxes on the middle class, CUT taxes for billionaires & gut programs for the poor. This is their game plan. Our job is to stop them. WATCH: www.instagram.com/reel/DFOWm94...

Today, we witness the peaceful transfer of power—a cornerstone of our democracy. As we head into this new administration, I’ll continue to fight for our democracy no matter who tries to weaken it.

I’ve been on this earth for 41 years, and I’ve never seen someone give a Nazi salute by accident. So…

Governors representing states across our country traveled to DC for the inauguration and had to watch it on TV in the basement. Meanwhile this group got to sit on stage. It’s already clear Donald Trump doesn’t serve the United States of America, he serves the United Billionaires of America.

This decision to move the inauguration indoors is a total cluster. Thousands of people, including hundreds of Rhode Islanders, paid for airfare and hotels to see the inauguration, knowing full well it would be cold, and now won’t get to see it. Here’s what my office is dealing with: 1/10

Won’t be the last time he leaves his supporters out in the cold.

I just introduced the bipartisan TRUST in Congress Act with Rep. Chip Roy to ban Members of Congress from trading stocks. This is long overdue, and we’re going to get this done.

Trust in Congress is at an all-time low, and we need to bring transparency & accountability to Washington. Today, I’m leading 44 Members of Congress with Rep. Chip Roy in introducing a bipartisan bill that would ban Members of Congress from trading stocks. #RestoreTRUST

🤔Our office’s official @bsky.app account @magaziner.house.gov has gained twice as many followers in the last WEEK as we gained in the last two years on X.

Looking for some new dinner recipes. Anyone have anything good?

Remember when Trump and the MAGA media called us war mongers for supporting Ukraine and standing up to Putin? Now they want to send other people’s kids to invade Canada, Mexico, Panama and Greenland. This stupidity is not what the voters signed up for.

Statement on the Anniversary of the January 6, 2021 Attack on the Capitol

This morning in @tednesi.bsky.social’s Nesi’s Notes there is a link to some great footage of President Carter visiting Rhode Island in 1979. Here are a few cool tidbits I saw in the footage. Would love to know what others noticed! 14 part thread below:

Statement on the New Orleans Terror Attack

What to make of the recent MAGA v. MAGA dustup over H1-B visas? This is going to be the first of many civil wars between the Billionaire Tech Bro faction of the Trump coalition (Elon, Vivek, Thiel, etc) and the OG faction (Bannon, Miller, etc). Here’s why and what it means: 1/

If you hold onto your old stuff long enough, it comes back into style.

Donald Trump isn’t even President yet and he is already about to shut down the government right before the holidays…for no clear reason. We’re off to a great start guys.

Been thinking about what went wrong for Dems in the last election. I’ve always believed that elected officials should listen to and learn from our constituents, and I want to hear from more people before making any statements about what Dems should do differently, but one thing is clear: 1/