Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna
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New Economic Patriotism. Marshall Plan for America. Medicare for All. Tax the wealthy. Pro-worker, pro-growth, pro-family. Text me: (650) 999-9610
Joined August 2012
There are now more recorded cases of COVID-19 in the White House than in New Zealand, Taiwan, and Vietnam combined, and they have 124 million people. Let that sink in.
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When students attend public colleges and universities, here’s what they pay on average: . 🇩🇰 Denmark: $0.🇪🇪 Estonia: $0.🇫🇮 Finland: $0.🇩🇪 Germany: $0.🇮🇸 Iceland: $0.🇳🇴 Norway: $0.🇸🇪 Sweden: $0.🇹🇷 Turkey: $0.🇺🇸 United States: $8,778. This is why we fight for College for All.
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What would make you feel safer right now: more aircraft carriers or $2000/month in your pocket?.
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Republicans claim that Democrats want to "pack the court?". They blocked 110 Obama nominees, wouldn't give Garland a hearing because it was an election year, then confirmed 218 Trump judges. Now, they're rushing to confirm Barrett as millions vote. Who's packing the courts?.
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No one should be working 40 hours a week and still living in poverty.
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Starting today, we have a mandate to deliver for people. $2000 checks. Green New Deal. Medicare for All. Tuition free college. It's time to do our jobs and deliver the real change America needs.
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Term limits for Supreme Court Justices. 18 years. Pass my bill now. We have a counter majoritarian court defying the will of the American public.
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Why is it legal for big banks to borrow money from the Federal Reserve at 1.75%, then charge you over 30% interest on your credit card?. It’s time to end this. We need to pass a federal cap on credit card interest rates.
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Tesla makes over 550,000 vehicles in Fremont in my district & employs over 20,000. Let's not play politics with keeping manufacturing in California. It would be foolish to exclude Tesla. Have we learned nothing from snubbing @elonmusk at the Biden EV summit?.
Even though Tesla is the only company who manufactures their EVs in California!. This is insane.
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Yes @aoc. We need an investigation into RobinhoodApp’s decision and who influenced that. And this shows the need for a financial transaction tax on hedge fund shorting and SEC regulations on short selling practices.
This is unacceptable. We now need to know more about @RobinhoodApp’s decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit. As a member of the Financial Services Cmte, I’d support a hearing if necessary.
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What is the rationale for this other than making life more difficult for many seniors?
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In Portugal, with no net neutrality, internet providers are starting to split the net into packages.
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Because Senator Feinstein was absent, the Senate overturned a Biden rule that would cut pollution from heavy duty trucks and causes harm to people’s lungs. We are putting decorum over democracy and our values. It’s time for Senator Feinstein to step down gracefully.
By a vote of 50-49, the #Senate passed S.J.Res.11, Fischer Trucking Emissions CRA. Senator Manchin joined Republicans and voted in favor. Senator Feinstein did not vote.
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Are you going to tell him to apologize for saying "Normalize Indian hate" before this rehire? Just asking for the sake of both of our kids.
Here’s my view: . I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life. We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever. So I say bring him back. If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of.
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People who have lost health care during the pandemic:. 🇦🇺: 0.🇧🇪: 0.🇨🇦: 0.🇩🇰: 0.🇫🇮: 0.🇬🇷: 0.🇫🇷: 0.🇩🇪: 0.🇮🇹: 0.🇯🇵: 0.🇳🇴: 0.🇰🇷: 0.🇪🇸: 0.🇬🇧: 0.🇺🇸: 14.6 million. This is why we need Medicare for all.
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I am hearing of hard working Americans who voted for Trump and now are being fired from their jobs with the Parks Service, with Veterans affairs, with USAID, with NIH etc. If you are a Trump voter who is being fired or has a family member being fired, please share your story.
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There is zero tolerance for acts of vandalism against Tesla. Spraying the words "nazi cars" or lighting fire to dealership and chargers is wrong. Period. All Democrats should condemn it.
I can't find a single Democrat in office that has condemned the escalating attacks on Tesla
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Jim Barrett, a flight attendant, politely chased me down at Chicago Airport. "Sir, I am a Democrat but the way the party behaved was embarrassing. Made us look heartless. I don't care who is up there, you stand for the boy with cancer. Be more rational & get your act together.".
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20 Democrats had the courage tonight to vote no on the bloated defense budget. Please RT & thank them. They are changing the culture of endless war & calling for more investment instead in the American people.
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The CIA has now officially concluded that the Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi’s assassination. How much more evidence of human rights abuses does Trump need before we stop providing military assistance to Saudi Arabia?
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Let's not just give ordinary Americans a one-time $2,000 check. With our new majority and a worsening crisis, let's meet the need: $2,000/month, every month, until this crisis is over.
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New rule: Anyone who opposes investments for a Green New Deal has to tell us how they will pay for the damage from intense hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires, rapid sea level rise and ecological devastation.
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We paid $2 billion to Pfizer. We gave Moderna the IP from NIH. The *least* they can do is license their vaccine to manufacturers across the globe. It’s a moral obligation, and President Biden should demand it.
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Tuition-free community college would have benefited thousands of Americans and cost $9.5 billion per year, yet was cut from BBB because we “can’t afford it.”. Well, the new defense budget is $20 billion more than the President requested. So what can and can’t we afford?.
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What happens when we guarantee $15/hour?. 💰 31% of Black workers and 26% of Latinx workers get raises. 😷 A majority of essential workers get better pay during a pandemic. 📊 Income inequality improves across the board. We're in the worst crisis of our lifetime. $15 can't wait.
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I am proud we delivered a big win for @BernieSanders in California. As the only CA House member backing Sanders, I was told it wasn’t a good political move to be his National Co-Chair. Our showing is a glimpse of the multicultural coalition that is the future of our party.
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Miles of high-speed rail in operation:. 🇨🇳 China: 19,289.🇯🇵 Japan: 1,890.🇪🇸 Spain: 1,772.🇫🇷 France: 1,749.🇩🇪 Germany: 976.🇮🇹 Italy: 557. 🇺🇸 U.S.: 457. Instead of spending billions on endless wars, America must invest in winning the green energy race.
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The Senate only needs 50 votes to pass trillions of dollars in tax cuts for corporations, but 60 to pass a $15 minimum wage for 30 million people. How does that make sense?.
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Stop calling it a labor shortage. It's a living wage shortage. Here's an easy way to solve the problem: Pay more.
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This is a critical moment for Pakistan. I am deeply concerned by the growing evidence that the military is interfering and rigging the result to overturn the will of the Pakistani people. The US should not recognize a winner until all the facts are investigated.
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It’s time for @SenFeinstein to resign. We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty. While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties. Not speaking out undermines our credibility as elected representatives of the people.
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The President needs to come to Congress before launching a strike against the Houthis in Yemen and involving us in another middle east conflict. That is Article I of the Constitution. I will stand up for that regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican is in the White House.
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The minimum wage at $7.25/hr is $1,257 a month. How exactly do you pay for rent, utilities, food, child care, health care, clothes with $1,257 a month?. Raise the wage.
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I’m sorry—an unelected parliamentarian does not get to deprive 32 million Americans the raise they deserve. This is an advisory, not a ruling. VP Harris needs to disregard and rule a $15 minimum wage in order. We were elected to deliver for the people. It’s time we do our job.
NEWS: The Senate Parliamentarian ruled that the minimum wage is "merely incidental" and can NOT be included in the Covid bill.
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#MyNameIs Rohit, and my friends call me Ro. It means bright light in Sanskrit. This election, #IWillVote for an inclusive America by voting for @joebiden & @kamalaharris.
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This year’s defense budget is $778 billion, with billions more than the President asked for, and no one bats an eye. And much of it goes to defense contractors. So why is it a problem when we want to spend just $175 billion per year to help working families?.
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The national debt was caused by 4 things:. 1) Reagan's tax cuts,.2) Bush's tax cuts,.3) Trump's tax cuts, and.4) Bush's overseas wars. We don't need a fiscal commission to study it. Everyone knows Johnson’s fiscal commission will recommend cuts in Social Security & Medicare.
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It’s abysmal that the minimum wage is $7.25/hour. It’s even more abysmal that we can’t find 60 Senators who agree with that sentiment.
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$1,400 checks, a $15 minimum wage, and funds for COVID relief are all extremely popular with the American people—yet 0 Republicans voted for these policies. Not one.
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Every citizen in the United States should be automatically registered to vote on their 18th birthday.
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Two assassination attempts in 60 days on a former President & the Republican nominee is unacceptable. The Secret Service must come to Congress tomorrow, tell us what resources are needed to expand the protective perimeter, & lets allocate it in a bipartisan vote the same day.
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There is a deep problem in our democracy when the Executive branch is willing to bend over backwards to defer to arcane Senate rules to deny Americans a $15 wage but at the same time ride roughshod over Congressional rules & procedures to launch military strikes abroad.
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DC pays more in federal taxes than:. Alabama.Kansas.Nebraska.Iowa.Utah.Nevada.Delaware.Rhode Island.New Hampshire.Idaho.Mississippi.New Mexico.Hawaii.Maine.South Dakota.West Virginia.North Dakota.Montana.Alaska.Wyoming.Vermont. But DC residents have 0 say in how that $$ is spent.
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When someone says that Medicare for all costs $32 trillion, we should mention how our current system costs $49 trillion. Medicare for All would take the excessive costs of insurance, hospital facility fees, and prescription drugs out of the equation.
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Don Lemon was right. As an Indian American, I was profoundly embarrassed by Vivek lecturing a Black man about Black history. The truth is that the Black civil rights movement paved the way for the 1965 immigration act so that Vivek’s family or mine could come to America. We owe a.
according to the NYT this interview that Don Lemon conducted last week with Vivek Ramaswamy played a role in his firing. Note co-host Poppy Harlow sitting silently while Lemon goes after Vivek.
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Countries that have stopped selling weapons to Saudi Arabia:. ❌ Denmark.❌ Germany.❌ The Netherlands.❌ Finland.❌ Austria.❌ Belgium.❌ Switzerland.❌ Norway. We must work together to add the United States to this list.
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Coronavirus shows the importance of @BernieSanders' Medicare for All. In a pandemic, you don't want people avoiding getting tested or treated because they can't afford a $3,000 medical bill. We're only as safe as the least insured person among us. Everyone has to be covered.
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the American people looking for the $2,000 checks we promised
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.@PeteButtigieg is running an ad literally claiming that @BernieSanders & @ewarren are “infringing on people’s freedom” by proposing Medicare for All. Simple question for Mayor Pete: Do you think requiring all seniors over 65 to be on Medicare is infringing on their freedom?.
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We cannot let an outdated Senate procedure stand in the way of the right to vote. Abolish the filibuster.
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.@BernieSanders is an FDR Democrat. FDR is the most popular Democrat in American history. Of course Sanders can win!
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The U.S. will pay for climate change whether or not the Green New Deal is in place. The question is: Will we invest in a bold plan to boost the economy or will we pay for the damage from intense hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires, sea level rise & ecological devastation.
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Countries with tuition-free colleges and universities:. ✅ Denmark.✅ Estonia.✅ Finland.✅ Germany.✅ Iceland.✅ Norway.✅ Sweden.✅ Turkey.❌ United States.
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The Senate managed to pass a SCOTUS nominee in 30 days, but can’t pass any meaningful relief for Americans?.
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It should be illegal for companies to make insulin for $3 and sell it for $300.
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“If you live in the Mississippi Delta and your income is $25k, you are more likely to be audited by the IRS than if you live on Park Avenue and make millions.”. Most $ owed is from the 1%. We must strengthen the IRS & hold the ultra-rich accountable.
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Two-thirds of Americans support raising the minimum wage. It will lift millions out of poverty. What are we waiting for?.
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I have heard people say $15 is too much in some parts of the country. $15 is $600 a week; $2400 month pre tax. Please show me a budget for rent, utilities, food, childcare, healthcare, school supplies and clothes that can make a lesser wage work.
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No one is denying grace to people who make mistakes. I respect Usha (praised her publicly) & defended your family from some of the vicious attacks. But if you are going to rehire someone to represent you & the USA, why not insist he apologize for saying "Normalize Indian hate?".
For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up. Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don't threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children.
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No major corporation should be allowed to buyback stock unless they:. ✅ Pay all employees at least $15 per hour. ✅ Allow employees to earn up to 7 days of paid sick leave. ✅ Make sure that CEO compensation isn’t more than 150x median worker pay.
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The disaster in East Palestine Ohio is the result of years of deregulation and anti-labor practices. We are here because the rail industry invested in stock buybacks instead of safety and their own workers. Make no mistake - this WILL happen again unless we take action now.
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A one-time $1,400 check is simply not enough to pay the bills. We’re one year into this pandemic, and many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Let’s pass $2k monthly checks.
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Average price of bypass surgery:.🇺🇸 $78,318.🇦🇺 $28,888.🇨🇭 $34,224.🇬🇧 $24,059. Average price of an MRI:.🇺🇸 $1,119.🇦🇺 $788.🇨🇭 $503.🇬🇧 $215. Average price of an Appendectomy:.🇺🇸 $15,930.🇦🇺 $8,009.🇨🇭 $6,040.🇬🇧 $3,814. The cost-effective solution is Medicare for All.
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Weeks of paid maternal leave by country:. 🇬🇧 U.K.: 52.🇬🇷 Greece: 43.🇮🇪 Ireland: 42.🇭🇺 Hungary: 24.🇸🇪 Sweden: 19.6.🇨🇦 Canada: 17.🇫🇷 France: 16.🇦🇺 Australia: 10.🇺🇸 United States: 0. Paid family leave isn't "unrealistic." What's unrealistic is being the only OECD country without it.
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On its face, this was an absurd abuse of government power to issue a search warrant, enter this man's home, ask about his wife's immigration status, and kill their squirrel pet of 7 years. My condolences to them. There needs to be accountability.
The owners of #Peanut the squirrel are going nuclear on government officials in New York, accusing the state of abusing power and wasting taxpayer funds to seize and kill their pet. Watch their full interview on @TMZLive here:
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Fifty years ago, MLK said that America has “socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor.” . This is true today as the wealthy get massive tax breaks while the poor are left with underfunded schools and hospitals, and no payback for decades of stagnant wages.
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Saying I am "whiny" & "you disgust me" maybe your way of showing strength. Personally, I don't think you have to hurl insults or be mean-spirited to have a free exchange ideas. Our country, at its, best (Lincoln/Douglass) was not like that and you at your best JD were not either.
I don't worry about my kids making mistakes, or developing views they later regret. I don't even worry that much about trolls on the internet. You know what I do worry about, Ro? . That they'll grow up to be a US Congressmen who engages in emotional blackmail over a kid's social.
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I'm ready to work with @doge, @elonmusk + @VivekGRamaswamy to slash waste. I have a track record of doing so. I led the charge to get TransDigm to refund $16 million after investigative reporting exposed price-gouging. Let's look to the Truman Committee and ensure Americans get.
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You fools criticizing @sriramk as Indian born criticize Musk as South African born or Jensen as Taiwanese born. It is GREAT that talent around the world wants to come here, not to China, & that Sriram can rise to the highest levels. It's called American exceptionalism.
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This is why people hate Congress. @SpeakerRyan is not allowing a vote on my resolution to stop the war in Yemen because many Republicans will vote with us and he will lose the vote. He is disgracing Article 1 of the Constitution, and as a result, more Yemnini children will die.
Wow. The rule for the Farm Bill approved tonight by House Rules strips privilege from any War Powers resolution that limits US involvement in Yemen for the rest of the year. The rule still must pass the House.
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With respect Senator Durbin, the US should not anoint the leader of the opposition in Venezuela during an internal, polarized conflict. Let us support Uruguay, Mexico, & the Vatican's efforts for a negotiated settlement & end sanctions that are making the hyperinflation worse.
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When the defense budget gets $20 billion more than requested, it’s hard to tell working families that we “can’t afford” to help them with the necessities. We have to get our priorities straight.
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In America, we value free speech, including conversations like the one @elonmusk is having tonight with ideas and opinions people may dislike or even find offensive. We don't censor. Ironic, this used to be a European idea advocated by someone named John Stuart Mill.
@ThierryBreton @DigitalEU Bonjour!.
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How should House Democrats and Biden govern w McConnell? Pass $2000 month. Extend Medicare. Pass debt forgiveness & rent relief. Force McConnell to vote no and explain why. Ask for more before compromising with ourselves. Build public support before striking any deal.
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We’re carving out exceptions to the filibuster left and right depending on how important we all think an issue is. And yet we still don’t have an exception to pass voting rights? How out of touch are we?.
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I’m tired of compromising on basic progressive values. We must do everything in our power to give Americans a raise.
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I would have voted yes. They called a procedural vote without notice & I like 8 others didn’t make it there on time. Musk’s attacks on our institutions are unconstitutional. He should be subpoenaed & answer to our committee. They should call the vote again with notice.
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A crisis of this magnitude requires a bold solution: $2,000 a month to every American for the remainder of this crisis—and let’s make it retroactive, too.
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My grandfather spent four years in jail with Gandhi. One of my heroes, John Lewis, was beaten on the Edmund Pettus bridge. The US Congress must never punish the right of dissent, protest, and free speech. The Senate bill violates the core principles of our constitution.
It’s absurd that the first bill during the shutdown is legislation which punishes Americans who exercise their constitutional right to engage in political activity. Democrats must block consideration of any bills that don’t reopen the government. Let's get our priorities right.
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For over a year, I have been pushing to end U.S. involvement in Yemen. I have invoked the War Powers Act twice but Republicans blocked my efforts. This issue is so important to me and I’m glad that the Senate took the first step to finally end our support for Saudi war crimes.
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Those who are concerned about refugees coming to the U.S. from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador need to recognize that the conditions in those countries were fueled by destructive policies pushed by Bolton and Abrams in the 1980s to side with autocracies over democracies.
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A new poll shows that 81% of Americans support the #GreenNewDeal, including 64% of Republicans. Meanwhile, momentum for the select committee continues to build with 40 House Dems in support. The wind is at our backs. Bold climate action is our future. Thank you @ocasio2018.
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┏┓.┃┃╱╲ in.┃╱╱╲╲this.╱╱╭╮╲╲ house.▔▏┗┛▕▔ we believe.╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲. $15 is the floor . and not the ceiling.╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲.▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔. #RaiseTheWage.
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The American people believe Congress is broken. They are correct. Here's my plan to fix it. ✅ Ban *all* PAC and lobbyist money from Congress.✅ Ban Congress members from trading stocks.✅ Enact term limits for Congress members and SCOTUS Justices.✅ Ban Congress members from.
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Why is it so hard to pass a working class agenda? Not a single Republican vote for childcare, pre-school, a child allowance, vision, dental or hearing for seniors, free community college, or solar or wind investments. Not 1 Republican Senator or Rep is for any of these programs.
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A few of the companies that paid $0 or less federal income tax in 2019:. 💰 FedEx.💰 Netflix.💰 Eli Lilly.💰 JetBlue.💰 Amazon.💰 Chevron.💰 Whirlpool.💰 Starbucks.💰 Salesforce.💰 Halliburton.💰 Delta Airlines.💰 Molson Coors.💰 Goodyear Tires.💰 Prudential Financial.
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Listening to @POTUS at our issues conference today I was struck by his wisdom through years of scars and experience. More than any other attribute, it is the virtue most needed in our leaders at this moment. I came away feeling genuinely glad that he’s our President.
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What if I told you we could raise $1.2 trillion—without raising taxes one penny?. By actually enforcing tax laws on the richest Americans, we can make it happen.
This is long overdue - great work by @RoKhanna .
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Mark my words. If we get rid of the filibuster, we will see *more* bipartisanship on bills, not less.
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I am glad we are finally having a vote tomorrow on a $2000 stimulus. The question remains why we didn’t have this vote in March when @TimRyan and I proposed this. This is a lesson. It should not require permission from Trump or Republicans to vote on and push for bold policies.
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I have a question for those who say that Medicare for All will “bankrupt” our country: Do you think it’s acceptable that two-thirds of personal bankruptcies in the United States are due to medical costs?.
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We can and should continue to push for $2k/mo in stimulus for everyone, more aid to small businesses, and an end to big corporations profiting from the pandemic. We have to do our jobs as elected reps.
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Parler is hosted by Amazon Web services (AWS). Amazon should deny Parler services until Jan 21 unless they commit to removing all posts related to incitement of violence concerning inauguration. This will help prevent further violence and save lives.
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If you vote for a bloated $740 billion defense budget, which over 50% of our discretionary budget, or the Trump $1.6 trillion tax cut, please save us the lectures about deficits. You have no credibility.
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X isn't always real life. But 23 million plus views is the most any post of mine has had in 9 years in Congress. Millions of Americans want us to work with @DOGE to cut wasteful spending. I am for spending money to improve peoples' lives, not wasting money. It's common sense.
I'm ready to work with @doge, @elonmusk + @VivekGRamaswamy to slash waste. I have a track record of doing so. I led the charge to get TransDigm to refund $16 million after investigative reporting exposed price-gouging. Let's look to the Truman Committee and ensure Americans get.
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.@BernieSanders opposed the Iraq War when it was unpopular. He supported my War Powers Resolution to end involvement in Yemen when it was unpopular and together we passed it in both houses. Bernie has the vision & leadership to prevent endless, unconstitutional wars. #DemDebate.
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