Health insurance costs are about to rise by a record amount. This is happening after the seven largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported a combined $71 BILLION in profits in 2024. Instead of addressing this, Trump is spreading misinformation about Tylenol.

Fact checking from the BBC on the Trump administration’s “theories” regarding autism www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump just embarrassed our country in front of the entire world at the UN. We heard America in Retreat. For all our partners who still believe in the rule of law, freedom, human rights, and democracy, we need you to step up and lead. It will demand all our collective action.

This is the real reason Jimmy Kimmel is being taken off the air. Brian Stelter: "Nexstar already owns lots of TV stations. It wants to merge with Tegna, which owns lots of other stations. In order to do that, it needs Brandon Carr, the FCC Chair's, permission."

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Trump, who last week fired a government statistician because he didn't like the latest jobs numbers, now insists that his own approval rating tops 70%. Gallup puts it at 37% and the Wall Street Journal puts it at 46%. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

I’ll never forget the heartbreak of going to bed grieving for El Paso and waking up to news that nine people were killed & 27 others were injured in Dayton. Time and time again, our communities are faced with the pain of gun violence. We owe it to all victims and survivors to end this crisis.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -George Orwell, 1984

Here’s the thing to understand about Trump's cabinet: They'll never admit a mistake—and they'll always pick a fight. They're focused on social media & confrontation. Every failure is an opportunity to double down and lie about how you’re actually making America great.

Donald Trump is trying to cheat the system in Texas, but these Democratic legislators refuse to let it happen without a fight.  Their fight is our fight. I’m proud to stand side-by-side with them as they protect their constituents.

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

Republicans' Big Ugly Bill is a bad deal for #WA08. Millions of Americans will be kicked off their healthcare and critical food assistance programs will be defunded - all to give tax breaks to billionaires. I represent everyday Americans, not billionaires, and I will continue to fight for them.

The UK & 27 other countries rightly call for an immediate end to the war in Gaza. Our screens are filled with horror day in, day out. Enough is enough. Where is the humanity? Where is the basic decency? Civilians must never be a target in a conflict. The killing must stop www.bbc.com/news/article...

🚨A top government watchdog confirms that Trump illegally withheld federal funds from Head Start. Trying to steal money from preschool programs? Not on my watch. This former preschool teacher is fighting to protect our kids from Trump's illegal cuts. My full statement. ⬇️

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

The treatment of migrants in Florida is inhumane and needs to change. The Human Rights Watch report referenced in this article outlines some truly disgusting conditions and is worth reading in its entirety. In June 72% of the people held have no criminal record. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don’t understand why 82 year old Luis Leon was deported. This seems like another case of someone trying to do the right thing I.e. reissuing a green card, and finding themselves imprisoned in a foreign country. How can this be lawful and acceptable in the US? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

While children are starving, the Trump Admin is literally setting food on fire — destroying 500  tons of US taxpayer-funded food that could feed 1.5 million starving children for a week. Destroying the food alone will cost $130K. This is heartless cruelty, not efficiency.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."

This budget reconciliation bill undermines the economic power of hardworking families – all to give a boost to the well-to-do. Plus, it's one of the largest explosions of our deficit EVER from a single bill. Southwest Washington deserved a better deal – so I voted no.

Under Reagan's tax cuts, the average tax cut for the top 1% was 68x larger than the average cut for middle-class households. Under Bush's tax cuts, it was 16x larger. And under Trump, 36x larger.  The GOP has always governed for the privileged few.

Washington is among the states hit hardest. Donald Trump’s morally bankrupt policy will cause our most vulnerable Washingtonians to lose their health care coverage and likely force hospital closures across the state, all to pay for tax breaks for the richest Americans.

The MAGA Congress just passed devastating cuts that will take Medicaid from 250,000 Washingtonians. Washington's Reps. Baumgartner and Newhouse voted in favor of the cruel cuts, which will disproportionately affect their constituents in Eastern and Central Washington.

Donald Trump and most Republicans in Congress just stuck it to the American people so they can give a big tax cut to billionaires. They're throwing someone’s grandma out of a nursing home and taking away some kid's school lunch to do this.

Medicaid touches health care in every stage of life, for Washingtonians in every corner of our state. Federal cuts to Medicaid would be felt by all Washingtonians, regardless of ZIP code or party affiliation.

Weird priorities. President Trump is illegally withholding $7 billion Congress appropriated for afterschool and summer programs, teacher training and other educational needs. Meanwhile, he’s demanding a trillion in tax breaks for the 1%. That's not what the American people want.

Congrats to Senate Republicans on passing their disastrous budget. They just voted to rip Medicaid and food assistance from millions so billionaires can get another yacht. Hell of a legacy.

Going forward, we will refer to “Alligator Alcatraz” as Alligator Auschwitz. The similarities to Nazi Germany are growing by the day, and the concentration camp they’ve built is a horrifying escalation bringing us even closer to that reality.

Today, Trump’s fascist regime: 1. Passed a bill that steals our money to enrich billionaires, strips people of food and healthcare, and provides billions of dollars to ICE. 2. Opened a concentration camp in Florida named “Alligator Alcatraz”. 3. Shared intentions to denaturalize and deport citizens.

It’s past midnight and Republicans still don’t even know what the final version of their Big Ugly bill will look like. Kicking millions off health care, blowing up the national debt by trillions, and devastating generational economic harms—all being written into law on the fly.

Fascism scripts it this way: Punish low fruit. Bargain with the ripe ones. Claim virtue through engineered consent. Isidro Pérez was 75. He'd lived here longer than his jailers. Still, they harvested him

Growing up, my dad lost his job after getting MS. Mom was raising 7 kids & needed skills training before she could find work—both unemployed for months. Food stamps kept us fed, but my family wouldn't even qualify today under the Big Ugly bill. It's just wrong. Senators must vote NO.

The MAGA tax bill will throw at least 17 million Americans off their health care, add $3.3 trillion to the debt and, as former Trump pal Elon Musk says, “destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!”

We've been on the Senate floor for 25 hours fighting this awful bill. Republicans have blocked us at every step — while rewriting the bill behind closed doors to strong-arm their members into cutting health care for 17 million people to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Shameful.

If a bill is so bad that you have to exempt entire states from its consequences to win the votes you need—just don't pass the bill! Why do people in Washington state deserve Medicaid & SNAP cuts, but others don't? This is plain wrong, and it's just no way to legislate.

🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care. I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out. Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.

The SCOTUS decision to allow states to defund Planned Parenthood will mean real harm to millions of women who need cancer screenings or birth control in South Carolina and other GOP states that follow their lead.   A devastating blow to women's health care in America, but I’ll keep fighting back.

These are the consequences when you put a vaccine conspiracist in charge of making sure Americans can get safe and effective vaccines. This is a disgrace. abcnews.go.com/Health/exper...

If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."

RFK Jr. lied to Senator Cassidy, lied to the American people, and lied to parents about vaccines for decades. And I want to be clear: I will lay all responsibility for every death from a vaccine-preventable disease at his feet.

I asked Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to justify cutting Medicaid by $700 billion dollars just to give the very richest people in this country a $235 billion tax break. You won't be surprised to learn: he didn't have an answer.

There's a lot happening right now, but this week, Republicans unveiled some new changes in their Big, Ugly, Betrayal of a bill and snuck in a provision that would allow them to SELL OFF OUR PUBLIC LANDS.   No way. Our public lands are NOT for sale.   Help me spread the word.

Senators are ELECTED to be a VOICE for their constituents. What happens when that voice is stifled, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed like Senator Padilla was? We have a democracy, but we can lose that democracy. I took to the Senate floor to speak out—I hope you'll join me.

Senator Padilla was violently assaulted for doing his job. If this is how federal agents treat a sitting U.S. Senator peacefully asking questions, how far will they go?

Today I watched as my colleague, @padilla.senate.gov, was shoved and handcuffed by Trump officials. I immediately went to the Senate floor to respond. This is what I said: youtu.be/h40tBBFkiq4?...

Noem’s Goons crossed the reddest of red lines by attacking and handcuffing a U.S. Senator. In times past Senators of both parties would have rallied behind their fellow Senator and called Noem and her henchmen into the Senate to demand their resignations. MAGA Senators will do nothing. #ProudBlue

House Republicans just voted to cut off public radio broadcasts, defund your local PBS station, and rip away lifesaving aid and bipartisan investments to advance U.S. interests around the world. I'll be doing everything I can to defeat this bill as it comes to the Senate.