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The Minnesota shootings illuminate the character of the Trump era | Sidney Blumenthal https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/minnesota-shootings-trump-mike-lee-vance-boelter #Trumpadministration #Farright(US) #DonaldTrump #Republicans #USpolitics #Minnesota #USSenate #USnews

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) has apparently hired a campaign manager. That implies she'll be running for a third Senate term in 2026.
#JoniErnst #Iowa #USSenate #Election2026 #Republicans #MAGA #USPolitics

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled out two provisions in the Republican budget bill that would have effectively shuttered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board: https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-20-elimination-cfpb-financial-agencies-tossed-senate-byrd-rule/
#politics #USPol #legislation #USCongress #USSenate #budget #CFPB

Everyone should follow @billbot . Here's an example of the horseshit legislation these boneheads are worried about
#uspolitics #wasteofmoney #wasteoftime #wasteoftimeandmoney #ussenate

https://mastodon.social/@billbot/114711077460376900

A US senator’s X posts after the Minnesota shootings were horrific – and predictable | Austin Sarat https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/mike-lee-posts-minnesota-shootings #USpolitics #Minnesota #USSenate #USnews

Rodney Scott confirmed as head of CBP by US Senate despite ‘cover-up’ claim https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/rodney-scott-cbp-confirmation #Trumpadministration #USimmigration #USSenate #USnews

Democrats boycott Republican-led hearing on alleged cover-up of Biden’s mental decline https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/democrats-biden-cover-up #Republicans #USCongress #USpolitics #Democrats #USSenate #JoeBiden #USnews

The US Senate has passed the bipartisan 'Genius Act', paving the way for the first regulatory framework for stablecoins in the United States, with the bill now moving to the House and awaiting President Trump's approval.
#YonhapInfomax #GeniusAct #Stablecoin #USSenate #Regulation #DonaldTrump #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=68053

Donald Trump And Republicans To Gain A Majority On FCC As Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty
#News #Politics #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #FCC #OliviaTrusty #USSenate

https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-fcc-majority-olivia-trusty-senate-1236436125/

I bet you thought "Nina is too busy to make me think about the GOP's nightmare homicidal class war budget reconciliation bill now," didn't you? You fools, I have not even begun to reach my capacity for railing away about wonky bullshit that's actually a not even all that secret plan to farm American corpses to fatten up the rich. On the subject of the fascist GOP's absurdly-named "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" I have good news, and I have catastrophically fucking bad news.

The good news is that the GOP controlled Senate hasn't passed the class war murder bill yet. The bad news is that's probably because fascist Republican Senators actively want it to kill more Americans so they can look like tough on debt budget hawks.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/cuts-to-medicaid

Senate GOP Dumps Gasoline on 'Five-Alarm Fire' by Proposing Even Deeper Medicaid Cuts

"It shocks the conscience that Senate Republican leaders saw the impacts of the House bill—16 million more people uninsured and millions losing help buying groceries, including families with children—and chose to double down," said Sharon Parrott, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Leslie Dach, chair of the advocacy group Protect Our Care, said in a statement that "this bill was already a five-alarm fire for American healthcare, and Senate Republicans have just poured gasoline on it."

"Contrary to what they've repeatedly promised, Republicans are torching Medicaid, ripping apart the Affordable Care Act, and leaving 16 million people without the critical care they need, all so Trump and the GOP can funnel more money to their billionaire and corporate friends," said Dach. "Seniors will be thrown out of nursing homes, people fighting cancer will be cut off from treatment, and rural hospitals will shutter. Senate Republicans have made this cruel, heartless bill even worse as they continue on their endless pursuit to destroy our healthcare system."

Let's just make sure we all understand what's going on here. Mike Johnson and the assclown fascists in the GOP-controlled House passed a budget reconciliation bill that guts Medicaid, will deny healthcare to anywhere between 10 and 16 million labor class Americans, and *conservative* estimates say will kill 51,000 additional people a year (it will kill a LOT more than that.) They sent that bill to the GOP-controlled Senate, and those nazi chucklefucks said "absolutely not; you fucking commies aren't killing enough poor people, let us show you how it's done." The Senate Finance Committee now wants to increase work requirements we already know are a trojan horse for sheering millions off Medicaid rolls, and actively devastate the budgets of States that have expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act; so Democrat-run states.

"The Senate version would also sharply limit provider taxes that states use to fund their Medicaid programs. Edwin Park, a research professor at Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families, warned the provision would "devastate" state finances, particularly where lawmakers have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

"This will create huge budget holes over time, some in as little as two years, forcing states to make severe, highly damaging cuts," Park wrote in an analysis of the new legislation."

Please keep in mind that this all part of a GOP mega bill that contains unprecedented military spending, and absolutely fucking obscene tax giveaways to the very richest oligarchs in US society. You know how I feel about deficit talk; it's some bougie made-up bullshit designed to pave the way for austerity politics and harsh living conditions under capitalist oppression. If however Senate Republicans *really* wanted to reduce deficit spending in the Billionaire bill, they could have just as easily reduced the tax breaks for the ultra wealthy, or given the warmongers in the Pentagon a few less toys this year. Since however the purpose of the mega bill appears to be killing poor people to enrich the wealthy, they've opted to just do that "but more" instead.

You know folks, elections really *aren't* suicide pacts. If these people are dead set on killing the American labor class, and it very much appears that they are, it would probably behoove those of us on the chopping block to start considering what we need to do about it. I know there's an awful lot to protest going on in the American corner of capitalist hellworld right now, but these folks are on the verge of getting away with slow motion mass murder here. I'm certainly not advocating for violence, but it's very hard for me to understand how the politicians voting for either version of the Billionaire Bill go about their official business each day without having to face throngs of protestors disrupting their ability to work; which in this context means kill labor class Americans, even their own voters, for the very rich.

#GOP #BillionaireBill #Budget #USSenate #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #USPol #Medicaid

‘It’s time to wake up’: Padilla recounts being handcuffed at Noem briefing in emotional speech https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/alex-padilla-senate-speech #Trumpadministration #California #USpolitics #KristiNoem #WestCoast #USSenate #USnews

Ex-senator Bob Menendez arrives at prison to begin serving 11-year sentence https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/bob-menendez-bribery-prison #BobMenendez #USpolitics #NewJersey #USSenate #UScrime #USnews

On Senate Floor, Alex Padilla Recounts Forcible Removal From Kristi Noem Press Conference: “I Pray You Never Have A Moment Like This”
#News #Politics #AlexPadilla #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Immigration #KristiNoem #USSenate

https://deadline.com/2025/06/alex-padilla-senate-kristi-noem-press-conference-1236435750/

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) has come under fire for comments he made on social media blaming Democrats for the murder of a Minnesota state lawmaker. The senator posted a surveillance photo of suspected shooter Vance Luther Boelter on X with the captions: "This is what happens When Marxists don't get their way," and "Nightmare on Waltz Street," an incorrectly spelled reference to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D). Right-wing politicians and pundits have speculated that Boelter had Democratic ties because was once appointed by Walz to a civilian economic board. The alleged shooter's hit list targeted Democratic officials. His friends say he holds deeply conservative religious and political views, and that he is a President Trump supporter who would be offended to be described as a Democrat. Here's more from @AxiosNews.

https://flip.it/GKjNvd

#MinnesotaShootings #MikeLee #SenatorMikeLee #VanceLutherBoelter #USPolitics #USSenate #News

Trump is steamrolling congressional Republicans. What’s in it for them? | David Kirp https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/16/trump-steamrolling-republicans #HouseofRepresentatives #Republicans #DonaldTrump #USCongress #USpolitics #USSenate #USnews

The #Presidency, all 435 #USHouse seats, all 100 #USSenate seats, all 50 #Governors, every state legislative seat, every statewide office, all the way down to dog catcher.

How would recent events in America appear if they happened elsewhere? | Moira Donegan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/los-angeles-protests-trump-alex-padilla #LosAngelesIceprotests #Trumpadministration #USimmigration #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #LosAngeles #KristiNoem #USSenate #Protest #USnews

Alex Padilla, a #US senator from California, violently forced to kneel and then flat on the ground. Handcuffed. For wanting to ask a question about #Trump's regime arresting workers in his state.

Is it #fascism yet?

«Right now it's not clear that democracy is going to be around in 2026»
«Stop collaborating, start fighting», says Democrat Chris Murphy to his colleges in the #USsenate.

(1st image is just a reminder of how Dems ended up collaborating with fascists)

#USpol #fascistCollaborators

#USsenate

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