Sometimes, justice is best served cold (cuts)

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Hungry to learn more about every layer and condiment of this trial

Ugh can’t believe I was let down by my favorite base ball squadron the Toronto Blue Jays

Would be news to Russ Vought

Happy Bat Week to all who celebrate!

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Thinking this more and more

lol nothing matters

Trump’s Beautiful for Billionaires Bill isn’t cutting any deficits. The truth is he’s adding TRILLIONS to our national debt. All to give the wealthy another massive tax giveaway.

lol

"Mr. Merkley said his view was that he needed to make the case against the authoritarian tack of the Trump administration sooner rather than later. "'The longer you are in an authoritarian state,' he said, “it becomes more and more entrenched.'"

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, is about to cross 20 hours of continuously holding the Senate floor and speaking to "ring the alarm bells" about authoritarianism.

14 hours in, Sen. Merkley is still going strong.

TUNE IN: I’m holding the Senate floor to protest Trump’s grave threats to democracy. We cannot pretend this is normal. youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

Why yes I’ve always been a fan of the [reminds self who’s playing the Dodgers next] uhhh Blue Jays

omg

Go Niners. And also kittens.

Straight from the horse’s mouth. Russ Vought has been angling for this shutdown so he can execute more of his extreme Project 2025 Agenda. Meanwhile, Americans are suffering under this Republican circus and watching their health insurance bills SKYROCKET.

Here's Russell Vought 3 years ago, planning ahead for this very moment: "'We have to have a Speaker that goes into these funding fights with a love for the shutdowns,' Vought said during a November, 2022, briefing call, 'because they create an opportunity to save the country.'"

Ok, time for the shutdown to end

"I know more than you" – Ron Swanson

But, like, why? Who wants this? Who does this benefit?

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That’s what they want you to think

When he signed the bill into law that guaranteed backpay to furloughed federal workers during a shutdown, Trump and his White House clearly understood what the bill did.

Adjusted for timing shifts, the federal government spent $228 billion more in Fiscal Year 2025 than in 2024. DOGE was never about cutting spending.

Russ, call your office. "On Tuesday, the Trump admin said furloughed feds were not guaranteed back pay. On Wednesday, it sent notices saying they were"

I may be just a simple country Congressional aide, but seems to me that if you don't want to give backpay to furloughed federal workers, you shouldn't have signed the bill guaranteeing backpay to furloughed federal workers.

There's nothing we can do if the executive branch just decides to violate the laws we pass is certainly one opinion that a Senate majority leader could have

Until yesterday, my wife, a (now former) fed, was getting paid to not work. Starting today, I'm working and not getting paid. Efficiency!

Russell Vought was 32 in this photo

The Trump Administration broke the law when FEMA illegally withheld funding for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, the Shelter and Services Program, and the Next Generation Warning System Grants Program.

Kagan, in dissent: The Constitution "gives Congress the power to make spending decisions through the enactment of appropriations laws. If those laws require obligation of the money... then the Executive must comply." SCOTUS majority: No he doesn't because [garbled gibberish]

Brandon Buck,,, welcome to the #resistance

🚨Trump and Vought Threaten to Fire Public Servants if Republicans Shut Down the Government   Ranking Member Merkley's statement here: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

🚨Trump Administration Illegally Withheld Funding AGAIN, Government Watchdog Reports www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

The Trump Administration broke the law when FEMA illegally withheld funding for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program the and Shelter and Services Program.

GAO this morning: Pocket rescissions? Still illegal. www.gao.gov/products/b-3...

WaPo: Rounding is for losers

🚨HUGE WIN: A federal court has confirmed what Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov has been saying all along: Trump and Vought CANNOT trample on Congress's power of the purse and claw back approved funding with their illegal “pocket rescission.”

The best part of Cassidy fact-checking Paul on vaccines is the latter’s insistence on being called “Dr. Rand Paul”

This quote from the Trump admin about its pocket rescissions couldn’t be more brazen. Pocket rescissions are an illegal way to ignore the will of Congress — which they feel comfortable saying out loud directly to the press.

Pocket rescissions are illegal. Picking foreign aid also highlights the intent here is to overrule the will of Congress. Trump already asked Congress to legally get rid of $8 billion in foreign aid funding. Why not also get rid of this $5 billion then? Cause they were worried Congress would say no.

This is illegal. www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...

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