Which judges have ruled against the Trump admin? Reagan appointed judges . Clinton appointed judges. Bush appointed judges. Obama appointed judges. Biden appointed judges. Trump appointed judges.

Go Big Red!

NEW: Reuters took a closer look at violent crime in D.C. after President Trump began a show of force here. Despite the big investment of federal resources, it's really hard at this point to see any dramatic changes. www.reuters.com/world/us/did...

This is a remarkable statistic: 18.7 million out of the 24.3 million Obamacare enrollees are in states won by President Trump in 2024. www.kff.org/quick-take/m...

Donald Trump expected us to back down. Democrats continue to stand up to protect healthcare for everyday Americans. #RepublicanShutdown

Labor Day weekend all over again. Every 30 days. Something is up.

Trump and the Republicans are shutting down the government because they want to increase your health insurance premiums by 75%. Trump and the MAGA Republicans believe that rich people don't have enough money and that the poor and middle class have it too easy.

They think this is their country. They think a majority shares their twisted views and wants the same kind of world they want. They are woefully wrong on both counts, and their overconfidence and overstepping will backfire. Keep your heads up.

“Trump is lying. Speaker Johnson is lying. Full stop.” Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social on Trump & Johnson claiming Dems are pushing for health coverage for undocumented immigrants.

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

House Republicans are refusing to seat Dem Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election more than a week ago. She's the last signature needed to force a vote on the Epstein files. The soonest the GOP will act is Oct. 7. In three prior specials this year, the winners were all sworn in a day later.

Has anyone seen Trump yet?

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down. The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed. And they get another vacation

This is important. The GOP can open the government literally today with zero Democrats. Just ditch the filibuster. Go ahead. Why won’t they do it?

These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k. 2025: $228 2026: $1142 She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care. This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.

According to a @kff.org poll, a vast majority of voters (78%) support extending tax credits for ACA (Obamacare). House Republicans refuse to negotiate. They refuse to do their jobs. They own this shutdown. Pres. Biden and Congressional Democrats negotiated. No shutdowns under his watch. #NebDems

Where is Don Old? Why is the media covering up Trump's age and declining health? Why are they so invested in this imbecile?

Republicans have “demands” too - increase health care costs for Americans and fund Trump’s lawlessness.

BREAKING: Every single Senate Republican just voted to DOUBLE health care premiums and keep the government closed.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Trump’s approval rating now is on par with his numbers in 2017, when he earned the achievement of being the most unpopular president ever at this point in his term — @gelliottmorris.com

Oop. Turns out that voters blame the GOP more for the shutdown by an average of 12 pts.

Yesterday, I asked Americans from across the country how a DOUBLING of monthly health care premiums would affect their families. Responses have already come in, but we need more. If you want to share your story, send an email or video to [email protected]

Americans are going to lose their health care. Mike Johnson and Republicans don’t care.

I don’t want to hear another word from the right whining about dangerous, incendiary, violence-inciting language from the left. Once again, here’s their dear leader, the most divisive person on the planet.👇

Why we fight. Trump and the Republicans are shutting down the government because they want to increase your health insurance premiums by 75%. Trump and the MAGA Republicans believe that rich people don't have enough money and that the poor and middle class have it too easy.

If the Democrats don’t cave on the government shutdown, Trump will fire lots of federal workers (which is also exactly what Trump did when the government was open)

So the WH is belatedly realizing that the huge ACA price spikes might be a tiny bit problematic. But they're refusing to negotiate until the government is re-opened. Why on earth would the Dems agree to vote for that CR on the GOP's word that they'll "negotiate?" Lol.

Republicans control every branch in Washington. Now, Trump is openly giddy about using the shutdown to slash and burn federal resources that working Americans count on. His shutdown, and firings, will hurt people in every part of this country.

Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress just shut down the government. Why? They don’t want to lower your health care costs.

So Elon Musk's DOGE went on a government-worker-firing spree that was wildly unpopular and bollocksed up myriad federal agencies, requiring the re-hiring of a slew of people. And now Trump and Republicans are going to use the shutdown as an excuse to do the same, while expecting different results?

Flatly untrue: *No legal requirement to cut programs/employees under shutdowns. Never happened before. *In Feb, Vought told agencies to prioritize firing employees deemed non-essential during shutdown to enable DOGE mass firings that occurred before the shutdown. www.opm.gov/chcoc/latest...

So…let me see if I have this right. The federal government has been shut down, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the shutdown?

Democrats are fighting for the American people against Trump’s attacks on our health care, our economy, and our Democracy. ...And Republicans are fighting to RAISE your health care premiums. Two very different priorities.

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

How it started. How it's going.

Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"

WaPo flash poll of 1,010 people: 47% blame Trump and Republicans in Congress for the government shutdown, 30% say Democrats in Congress. Gift link wapo.st/4gNK7Zo

Republicans control the House. Republicans control the Senate. Republicans control the White House. But Trump and congressional Republicans would rather shut down the government than protect your health care.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

This is a very good question.

Federal workers won't be getting paid, but President Bridezilla simply must have his special little party room!

I am glad to see people in the media finally acknowledging that Trump is not ok. He's always been undisciplined and verbally incontinent. And he is famously stupid. But now he's lost all inhibitions and his mind is wandering and there are no longer any restraints. It's getting markedly worse.

No need to be scared of him. The trend is clear - everyone outside of his hard base is abandoning him.

At any time, 51 Republicans in the Senate can waive the filibuster rule and pass a budget. They have already waived the filibuster rule three times in 2025. The GOP should end the shutdown now!

The Trump administration has announced construction of the White House ballroom will continue during the government shutdown.

Congrats to Patrick for winning AFC offensive player of the week!