I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

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Lots of opportunities for Republicans to somehow fumble this and reclaim all blame for the shutdown. Last night was a vote to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to consideration of a CR that still expires on November 21st, by its terms. Lots of work and lots of votes between that and reopening.

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Yep. My feelings exactly.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

As I've always said, I will not support a government funding bill that continues to raise our costs, jeopardizes our health care, and hurts the people of my state. I’m urging my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand up for Americans who are counting on us to lower their costs, and address…

So much for safety in numbers. Who knows what if any they had in reserve, but they certainly didn't get any extras. Suggests that Johnson is going to have to provide just about all the votes in the House.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

I will continue to fight for an extension of health care tax credits before they expire at the end of this year. We will have a vote in December on improving health care and extending those credits, and I will intensify my efforts to fight for a winning vote.

I understand why some of my Democratic colleagues will support this bill. President Trump and Republicans seem determined to inflict harm on vulnerable Americans not just by making health care less affordable, but also by shutting down SNAP and firing federal employees.

Chuck Grassley is struggling to read on the Senate floor

so much depends on showing up and doing one’s duty

Warner is up for reelection next year and Kaine is not up for reelection until 2030. This is, in fact, the least surprising thing ever.

the strongest signal I’ve seen so far — the centrist and institutionalist wing of the Democratic Party is saying ‘hell no’

Tonight, I am voting no on a procedural vote on an appropriations deal that would re-open the government. Since July, I have been clear: to earn my vote, Republicans would have to do something to bring down the cost of health care for working and middle-class Michiganders. (1/4)

exactly right from @vanhollen.senate.gov

Gallego however reaffirms his no vote

this is a BFD — a clear signal of where most Ds are these days

Very well done story on 60 Minutes about the harms of grant terminations and freezes at Harvard with Joan Brugge, Don Engbar, David Liu, and a very compelling young cancer patient, now cured with Liu's technology. Transcript and video here www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...

I’m going to take totes unearned credit for getting Schumer to do the right thing because of my email

Schumer, Kelly, Slotkin … I’m starting to wonder where the cave caucus is going to get the votes they need.

The IL-Khan Pritzker criticizes the deal (likely a message to Durbin and Duckworth)

Mark Kelly a NO, notable as he was allegedly one of the cavers

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

"They took 7 weeks off. The Speaker said, 'The House had done its job.' Today we said, 'No, not even close.'" Now you should all click through @bbkogan.bsky.social's post to check out the draft CR agreement. A very easy read, though the innumerable cross-references might kill you. 🤣 2/

HOT TAKE: If this ends with the Senate passing a CR that is NOT the House-passed CR, Dems should claim *victory*: "We have a lot more to do, but we WON this round. They blinked. Speaker Johnson sent us a terrible bill, said we had to take it, and then he and his House Republicans did what? 1/

this is a message to duckworth (supposedly one of the Ayes on the 'deal')

fully funding SNAP a year out is what makes this a potential ceasefire not a surrender. it takes starvation off the table as potential stakes.

Trump administering an oath of allegiance to the Constitution is ironic in general but in DC in particular I’m not sure what other response you’d expect.

3 GOOD: some real approps working right for the first time in EONS, built based on need & politics, not from toplines. SHALL language on backpay 4 feds. Good anti-RIF language we’d want to see continued 2 BAD: Nothing forces Trump to actually FOLLOW the approps. A vote we could have forced already

still wild how many companies/media organizations/thought leaders etc. seem to be operating under the assumption this guy and his movement have the mandate of the American people when it's clear that most of us hate him

Consistent with a court order, Wisconsin legally loaded FoodShare payments to cards. Now, the Trump Administration has spent the last 48 hours making a last-ditch effort to yank those payments from nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites, including 270,000 kids. It's pathetic.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

I don’t think people understand how close to collapse this regime is As I said in early October, a shutdown is a no-confidence vote of sorts The executive branch “wins” by keeping govt substantively open while symbolically closed (eg, national parks). It’s a demonstration of capability to lead.

that’s intrinsically disordered

Hickenlooper walking this back now

Agree with this. About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.

7/ That Dem leadership was creating the appearance of fighting while engineering a clean CR that would avoid a shutdown. The fix was in. I don’t think the fix is in here. I don’t *think* this is play acting with the idea being to bring this to a cave close now. So even though team cave seems to …

4/ My hunch is that the real dynamic is there. There are already enough cave votes to throw in the towel. But the cavers desperately want cover from the rest of the caucus. So everyone jumps together or enough join them to make it look like the caucus was ready to cave.

2/ The Senators who want to vote yes on basically any terms appear to be shaheen, Hassan, king and Fetterman. Slightly less clear but I think pushing that way are Peters and Durbin. You’ll note that four of these six are retiring. Others who seem on the fence include the two sens from Georgia and …

last time i had a flight like this it was on aeroflot from fergana uzbekistan to moscow, 1992. and it was unnerving to say the least.

Things are fine.

Quick thread on timing of reopening the government, if they’re able to invoke cloture on MTP. (That’s a 60 voter, so you need 8 Dems assuming Rand Paul is still a no.) For timing, if they invoke cloture today (assume after 6pm), that begins the 30 hours of debate. Takes us to Tuesday for MTP vote.

! A key group of Senate Democrats is leaning toward voting for a deal to end the shutdown, provided final details can be worked out like worker protections (Gift link) (Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I absolutely don't want Senate Dems to cave, but some key things: 1. If they do, this gets kicked back over to the House, which has to vote on it again since it would differ from their own version...which I think only runs thru 11/21? 2. That presumably means having to swear in Grjalva.

SNAP serves around 42 million Americans—many of whom are feeling the toll of the program’s suspension amid the prolonged government shutdown. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-human-toll-of-the-suspension-of-snap

James 2:15-17 "Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."

I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out. He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments: