REMINDER: Republicans sent themselves home for the holidays without any solution to the health care crisis they’ve inflicted on Americans. Easy to celebrate the season when your health care isn’t at risk!

To my Jewish friends and neighbors in Milwaukee, and communities across the globe, I pray this Hanukkah season brought warmth, strength and hope to you and your loved ones.

Andy played such an integral role in delivering news to our community and will be deeply missed. Myself and my staff are sending our prayers to Andy’s family, friends, and the entire WISN team. www.wisn.com/article/wisn...

Justice delayed is justice denied. Congress passed legislation to release the Epstein files, but now Trump’s DOJ is pulling this stunt. Survivors deserve the truth, not cherry picked documents providing protection for powerful men with money and connections.

Times up, y’all! Speaker Johnson, we have the votes. Bring ACA premium extensions to the floor and let the will of the people be heard!

DOJ has until TOMORROW to release the Epstein files. They had 1,000 agents spend 24 hours scrubbing Trump’s name at his request just a few months ago. The victims deserve justice - so it better be the full unedited Epstein files.

Urgent update. Our bipartisan petition to force a vote on a straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has 218 signatures. Mike Johnson should bring the bill to the floor immediately.

The Republican tax plan is working as intended…. So is the Republican health care plan: they cut billions from Medicaid to pay for tax cuts, and now they’re kicking millions off their ACA plans. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

🚨🚨 “2025 is on pace to post the worst job growth since the pandemic wiped out a record number of jobs in 2020” Trump’s reckless policies are killing jobs, increasing inflation, and driving wage growth down. www.cnn.com/2025/12/16/e...

This is Trump’s “American Golden Age.” For all the talk about “winning,” working families nationwide are struggling to keep their jobs, their health insurance, food on the table and roofs over their heads. www.ft.com/content/17a1...

After 15 years, Republicans have two weeks to produce a health care plan. They’ve had this entire year to do something, but instead they prioritized tax goodies for billionaires and slashing Medicaid and SNAP.

Rob and Michele Reiner devoted their lives to art, justice, and decency. Trump’s deranged, callous response to their passing is a disgrace, but sadly on brand. We honor their legacy. He reveals his own.

Heartbroken and horrified by the shooting at Brown University. Gun violence has no place in our schools or our society. I’m praying for the entire community, but prayers aren’t enough. It’s long past time the government acted on compressive gun control reform.

I am horrified by the attack in Australia on the first day of Hanukkah. Antisemitism is hatred, plain and simple—and it has no place anywhere. I stand with Jewish communities in Australia and around the world.

Donald Trump wants credit for the state of the economy? He deserves it. He’s unleashed an affordability crisis on this country and Americans see the truth every day at the check out counter, in their utility bills, and in their health care rates this open enrollment season.

My constituent, Dan, is a Milwaukee favorite chef and restaurateur. Dan relies on the ACA not just for his employees, but himself.   I'm so glad he was able to come to DC, share his experience living with a preexisting condition, and tell Senators why we need to protect the ACA.

Wisconsin farmers are suffering tremendously due to the trade crisis the Trump Administration has engineered. The solution isn’t just to give subsidies to farmers, they want their markets and to sell their products! Donald Trump is bad for American farmers.

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with a health care plan of their own, and now with premiums set to soar for millions of Americans in a few weeks, they’ve landed on… “The consensus is we need to come up with something.”

Good news, everyone. Donald Trump says the economy has a grade of A+++++, so that must be true.

Thanks to Republicans, there are just 23 DAYS before premium tax credits expire, which will spike health care costs for millions. As various factions of the party release “plans,” Americans are trying to figure out how they’ll pay for health care.

By deliberately withholding critical inflation data, Donald Trump is keeping the American people in the dark about the real state of our economy. But people know the truth because they feel the squeeze every day. The American people deserve leaders who will level with them.

After making historic cuts to SNAP in his One Big, Beautiful Bill, Trump is once again attacking Americans who rely on aid to keep food on the table. His renewed efforts to starve people during the holidays are predicated on forcing states to share your data, as if DOGE wasn’t bad enough!

Republicans have had 15 YEARS to show their work on healthcare and yet they remain stuck on “concepts of a plan.” Meanwhile, millions of their own constituents have health insurance through the ACA and rely on the tax credits to keep premiums down.

Donald Trump is once again going after American’s private data, this time threatening to withhold critical SNAP funding.

After his One Big, Beautiful Bill cut nearly $200 BILLION in SNAP funding, Donald Trump wants to withhold food from millions of Americans, including 700,000 Wisconsinites.

Article I Section 8 of the Constitution gives CONGRESS the power to regulate foreign commerce and to levy tariffs. But Republicans in Congress have shirked their role as a co-equal branch of government and ceded all their power to Trump. When confronted? Deflect, deflect, deflect.

Manufacturing supports over 480,000 jobs here, making Wisconsin one of the top states in the nation for our concentration of manufacturing jobs. President Trump's reckless tariff taxes and trade wars are bad news for manufacturers, working families, and our state.

This doesn’t happen in a bubble. By creating a hostile business environment and starting reckless trade wars, Donald Trump has created an atmosphere that signals America is no longer a desired business partner and has Main Street shuttering businesses.

@SpeakerJohnson

Treasury Secretary Bessent: “Trump has a solution to affordability.” Trump at the cabinet meeting: “Affordability is a hoax by the Democrats.” Which is it??

Upon gaining a trifecta, Republicans acted to cut Medicaid for millions of Americans, and now they’re refusing to act to keep lower premiums for millions more. Sicker, hungrier, poorer. That’s the GOP vision for working families, veterans, seniors and everyday Americans.

Why is Trump pardoning the former President of Honduras, who bragged about "stuffing the drugs right up the noses of the gringos."   It tells every cartel boss and corrupt politician that if you flatter Trump, the law doesn’t matter and drugs can flow.

🚨🚨"U.S. manufacturing activity contracted for the ninth consecutive month in November, a decline manufacturers attribute largely to President Trump’s tariffs"   Trump's feckless economic mismanagement is an economic demolition plan. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Bessent: President Trump is the president of solutions and I’m sure we’ll have a solution to affordability. Trump: I don’t want to hear about the affordability.

Pete Hegseth is going after veterans for reminding military personnel they can refuse unlawful orders for a reason. I wholeheartedly support the Senate ASC bipartisan oversight efforts given recent revelations about Hegseth’s orders in SOUTHCOM. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This Thanksgiving, I’m reflecting on the many things I’m thankful for. My family, loved ones, and of course my constituents! May today be one of joy and reflection for all.

I’m praying for the National Guard members, their families and loved ones, and all of those impacted by the shooting near the White House today. And let us all thank law enforcement and first responders for their bravery responding to this tragedy.

With recent Republican attacks on programs like SNAP that keep food on the table, programs like Meals on Wheels are more important than ever.   I joined @davidccrowley.bsky.social to serve meals at one of Milwaukee's senior centers, to reaffirm our commitment to keeping our communities fed.

⬆️Groceries ⬆️ Utilities ⬆️Health care ⬆️Housing ⬆️Gas Prices are up under Donald Trump, but he doesn’t “want to hear about affordability” from you!

This Native American Heritage Month, we celebrate the extraordinary resilience, rich history and vibrant culture of tribal nations. This month and every month, I will continue fighting to meet treat obligations, protect tribal sovereignty, and address longstanding barriers to economic advancement.

I want to thank the National Guard for taking up some arborist duties and protecting the people of Washington, DC from falling branches.

🚨📢🔊SOUND UP In retaliation for being investigated for their involvement in the Jan 6 fake electors scheme, Senate Republicans like Lindsey Graham included a provision in their so-called “clean” funding bill allowing them to sue and enrich themselves on the taxpayer dime.

The eyes of the American people seem to be working just fine and they see health care costs rising when they get their bills each month. They know which party holds a trifecta.

After months of delay and embarrassing public infighting over protecting child predators, House Republicans finally voted to release the Epstein files. I commend the few who broke with Trump early and recognized that the nonpartisan priority needs to be the victims.

Not sure the McDonald’s summit is quite the right place to be touting “affordability,” Donald.

In another cruel attack on SNAP, the One Big, Beautiful Bill limits access to benefits for kids aging out of the foster care system.   I have legislation to restore paperwork exemptions, because access to food for young people, who often lack a strong support system, is critical.

“Quiet, piggy.” That’s how Donald Trump responded to a female reporter asking about the Epstein files. That is the attitude of a life-long abuser of women and girls, and exactly why Republicans are scared of the Epstein files.

The notion that costs are going down under Donald Trump is ludicrous. People aren’t stupid, they see their health care costs skyrocketing as 2026 premiums hit their mail boxes.