This is mafia-style blackmail, plain and simple. These workers have nothing to do with the ongoing disputes that have brought us to the brink of a shutdown. It’s not only an attack on Americans’ services and benefits — it’s also likely illegal. We’ll be fighting back with all we’ve got.

Who is Trump trying to fire exactly? These geniuses have had to scramble to REHIRE thousands of workers ranging from nuclear scientists to food safety inspectors tracking bird flu. Intimidation tactics won't work. Behave like an adult—negotiate with Democrats.

This is intimidation. It does nothing to lower costs for working families and is an excuse to speedrun Project 2025. We can fund the government and lower health care costs. Why wouldn’t Republicans take that deal?

Vice Chair Murray Responds to OMB Shutdown Memo: "The constitution does not make the president a king, and a shutdown certainly doesn’t make him one either. Trump needs to sit down and negotiate with Democrats to prevent a shutdown of his own making."

Murray, DeLauro introduce bill to PREVENT REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN: "While Republicans push America to the brink of a shutdown, Democrats are ready to negotiate a bipartisan CR and government funding bills that actually help working people—not just billionaires—and protect people’s health care."

NEW: Trump continues to illegally block funding that Americans are counting on. Click to view our updated tracker with @democrats-appropriations.house.gov detailing how the $410+ BILLION that Trump is holding up affects you.

Vice Chair Murray's Statement on partial restoration of spending transparency website after court orders Trump, Vought to stop breaking the law to hide their tracks:

When Republicans try to defund public broadcasting.

Republicans are saying, after trillions in tax cuts for billionaires, there's nothing left for our kids. Sorry! They’re feeding Big Bird to the fat cats.   Maybe this isn't quite how Sesame Street would say it, but America knows that message is brought to you by the letters “B” and “S”

Maybe cutting PBS and getting our kids hooked on brainrot TV is part of the Republican plan. After all, if our kids watch PBS, they might learn to count! And if our kids learn to count, how will Republicans ever convince anyone that trillions of dollars in tax cuts are free?

I just voted NO to advance Trump's DOGE cuts to PBS, rural radio, and lifesaving aid. Republicans need to decide: Does Congress decide how to spend taxpayer dollars, or do they just take orders from Russ Vought?

If President Trump and Russ Vought have their way—if Republicans approve their rescissions package—over 1500+ local public radio & TV stations could shutter. READ MORE on these cuts: www.murray.senate.gov/fact-sheet-t...

GET THE FACTS: President Trump’s rescissions package would gut bipartisan foreign policy investments, leaving a less secure world and a less safe America. Read more as the Committee holds a hearing on the package: www.murray.senate.gov/fact-sheet-t...

Sen. Murray: "When you cut off the Expanding Access to Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations grant, were you aware that that grant helps our authorities prosecute rape and sexual assault?" AG Bondi: "I have no idea about that specific grant you're talking about."

I shared the story of Natalie, a mom from WA state with stage 4 colorectal cancer enrolled in an NIH clinical trial, but she was told her care was delayed because of RFK Jr.'s staffing cuts. He admitted NIH cuts, "are gonna hurt."   It's unacceptable. I'm demanding accountability.

Kash Patel, the conspiracy theorist that Republicans made FBI Director, came to a Senate hearing on the budget—with NO budget, NO timeline, and NO clue. It's downright incompetent, and it's making America less safe. We need serious leadership at the FBI.

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

Trump's, DOGE's, and the GOP's cuts to medical research won't just stunt the search for cures for decades to come—they're taking away hope from Americans whose lives depend on that research. I spoke out at today's @senateapprops.bsky.social hearing because I know that need for hope too well.

THIS is what NIH funding means for real people, and why we can't lose it. I sat down with Emily & her daughter Charlie to discuss how NIH-funded clinical trials at Seattle Children's led to a cure for Charlie's cancer. This is why we have to speak up, this is who we're fighting for.

We thought we'd help out POTUS's mission to be "the most transparent administration in history." So we created a website with @democrats-appropriations.house.gov to track just how much $ he is ripping away from the American people. Here's a look at the $430+ BILLION Trump & Elon Musk are blocking.

NEW: Just 100 days in, Trump is blocking $430+ billion in federal funding, & it is families, small businesses, & communities across America who are paying the price. We teamed up with @democrats-appropriations.house.gov to track Trump’s unprecedented funding freeze.

Republicans: we need to focus on reducing the national debt!! Also Republicans:

Wall of Deceits.

DOGE and Elon have set in motion a worldwide historic death event.

This is the guy who’s breaking the Social Security Administration.

Is it efficient to stop testing for bird flu in our milk?

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