Ed Markey
@SenMarkey
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Senator for Massachusetts. Ranker on @SenateSmallBiz Committee & @HELPCmteDems Primary Health & Retirement Security Subcommittee. Fighting for a Green New Deal.
Massachusetts
Joined February 2009
Let’s be clear: Trump’s illegal war on Iran is a tax hike on American small businesses and families. Enough. End the war, end Trump’s affordability crisis, and end the pain on Main Street.
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In Chelsea with La Colaborativa and community leaders building power and opportunity together.
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In February, Massachusetts experienced a blizzard that battered businesses and infrastructure, shut off power, and buried communities under historic levels of snow. I’m joining with my colleagues in the MA delegation to urge FEMA to approve Gov. Healey’s request for needed
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Immigrants who are following the rules and showing up to immigration court risk walking into a trap set by the Trump administration. This is not justice. This is punishment. That’s why I introduced the SHIELD Act: to help ensure immigrants, including young children, can
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Trump wants to claim victory in his war with Iran but he's only made a bigger mess. 13 US troops and thousands of Iranian civilians have been killed. Gas has spiked to $4 a gallon. We need diplomacy to end this war now.
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The Supreme Court’s ruling in February offered small businesses temporary relief from what has become a year of pain and uncertainty for Main Street. We must stop the pain from becoming permanent. Trump must automatically refund his tariff taxes.
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I’m glad there is a reported ceasefire deal with Iran. But we shouldn’t be in this illegal war in the first place. And Donald Trump can’t simply threaten war crimes with impunity. Congress needs to get back in session now to stop this war and remove Donald Trump.
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Reminder: Right now, Democrats have a chance to stand up to Trump's chaos. Trump just requested an additional $1.5 trillion in military funding. We cannot hand over a huge check to a President intent on committing war crimes. I will do everything in my power to block it.
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Donald Trump said “a whole civilization will die tonight”. There is no room for interpretation. The President of the United States is threatening genocide in Iran.
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My Statement Calling for Trump Removal Over Threat to Eradicate "Civilization" in Iran.
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A war powers resolution will not be enough. Yes. We need to assert congressional authority and stop this illegal war in Iran. But, Trump is clearly an unstable warmonger at odds with the will of the people. Removal is the top priority. No more war criminal in the White House.
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This kind of loose-lipped ambiguity about the United States using nuclear weapons is apocalyptically dangerous and unacceptable. JD Vance and the White House must clarify immediately—no nuclear weapons.
"I hope they make the right response," says @VP on Iran. "They've got to know, we've got tools in our toolkit that we so far haven't decided to use. @POTUS can decide to use them, and he will decide to use them if the Iranians don't change their course of conduct."
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Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.
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An unhinged and profanity-laced tweet threatening war crimes won’t open the Strait of Hormuz. Only negotiating with Iran will. Start where you’re going to end up, Donald. So that Americans don’t keep paying more at the pump and our servicemembers don’t pay with their lives.
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