President Trump, you made a big mistake. By trying to divide us up by race, religion, gender and nationality you actually brought us closer.
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., you are embarrassing our country and the millions of Americans who fought and died to defeat Nazism.
McDonald’s worker in the US: $9/hr
McDonald’s worker in Denmark: $22/hr, 6 weeks of annual vacation, a union, 1 year of paid family leave, life insurance and pension.
America must join the rest of the industrialized world and ensure that our working class can live with dignity.
Cancel it. Every penny.
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Today, the student debt crisis reached $1,696,047,311,620
No.
Every police department violating people's civil rights must be stripped of federal funding.
Cancel all of it.
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Today, the student debt crisis reached $1,644,664,813,655
Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. And if there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes.
I was right about Vietnam.
I was right about Iraq.
I will do everything in my power to prevent a war with Iran.
I apologize to no one.
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This is an egregious attack on our democracy. The end of #NetNeutrality protections means that the internet will be for sale to the highest bidder. When our democratic institutions are already in peril, we must do everything we can to stop this decision from taking effect.
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BREAKING: The FCC votes on party lines to undo sweeping Obama-era `net neutrality' rules that guaranteed equal access to internet.
We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period.
No Mr. President, providing health care to every man, woman and child as a right is not a curse, it's exactly what we should be doing.
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Bernie Sanders is pushing hard for a single payer healthcare plan - a curse on the U.S. & its people...
Remember: our "crazy idea" of universal health care is a reality in:
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Canada
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Czech Rep.
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Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
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Israel
Italy
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If you paid $12.99 a month for an Amazon Prime membership, you paid more to Amazon than it paid in federal income taxes over the past 3 years combined—after making nearly $30 billion in profits. Yes. It's time to make corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
All of a sudden, Mitch McConnell is "worried" about giving a $2,000 check to someone who "doesn't need it."
That's funny. He had no problem giving a $560 million tax break to Sheldon Adelson who is worth $34.3 billion. Total hypocrisy! Let the Senate vote on $2,000 now, Mitch!
If Donald Trump takes people's anger and turns it against Muslims, Hispanics, African Americans and women, we will be his worst nightmare.
Now do AR-15s.
The white nationalist demonstration in #Charlottesville is a reprehensible display of racism and hatred that has no place in our society.
We have a president who acknowledged on tape that he assaulted women. I would hope that he pays attention to what's going on and think about resigning.
Cost for one vial of insulin:
🇦🇺: $6.94
🇬🇧: $7.52
🇫🇷: $9.08
🇩🇪: $11
🇨🇦: $12
🇯🇵: $14.40
🇺🇸: $98.70
No one should be forced to take out their wallets for insulin – a life-saving drug that was invented nearly 100 years ago. It's time to end the greed of the pharmaceutical industry.
Maybe it’s a radical idea, but I believe a job should lift workers out of poverty – not keep them in it.
Overturning Roe v. Wade and denying women the right to control their own bodies is an outrage and in defiance of what the American people want. Democrats must now end the filibuster in the Senate, codify Roe v. Wade, and once again make abortion legal and safe.
Wealth of Elon Musk on March 18, 2020: $24.5 billion
Wealth of Elon Musk on January 9, 2021: $209 billion
U.S. minimum wage in 2009: $7.25 an hour
U.S. minimum wage in 2021: $7.25 an hour
Our job: Raise the minimum wage to at least $15, tax the rich & create an economy for all.
The richest 400 Americans sit on $3 trillion—the size of the entire UK economy.
The billionaire class now pays a lower tax rate than people living paycheck to paycheck.
The looting of America has been going on for over 40 years—and the culprits are the ultra-rich.
Minimum weeks of paid medical leave for workers:
🇲🇽 52
🇮🇪 52
🇹🇷 52
🇩🇪 52
🇪🇸 52
🇯🇵 52
🇬🇧 52
🇦🇺 52
🇵🇹 52
🇱🇺 52
🇨🇿 52
🇧🇪 52
🇳🇴 52
🇫🇷 52
🇸🇮 52
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We must join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee paid sick leave to every single worker in America.
I’ll be damned if when a COVID-19 vaccine is developed, more people die because they can’t afford to purchase it. Any life-saving vaccine must be free.
I strongly oppose lowering income eligibility for direct payments from $75,000 to $50,000 for individuals and $150,000 to $100,000 for couples. In these difficult times, ALL working class people deserve the full $1,400. Last I heard, someone making $55,000 a year is not "rich."
We should cancel it.
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Today, the student debt crisis reached $1,654,792,448,855
Remember: our "crazy idea" of universal health care is a reality in:
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Chile
Czech Rep.
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
S. Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switz.
Turkey
U.K.
I will be voting against Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education. We must strengthen public education in America, not destroy it.
Congratulations to the women marching today. We must go forward to ensure full reproductive justice for all women. #WomensMarch
I say to those who are delaying action on climate change: Look at the blood-red sky and unbreathable air in Australia because of raging forest fires.
Our futures are all connected. That is why we must bring the world together and enact a Green New Deal.
There is no reason for any civilian to own an automatic weapon.
The world's largest military budgets:
🇯🇵 $50 billion
🇬🇧 $53 billion
🇫🇷 $56 billion
🇮🇳 $58 billion
🇷🇺 $63 billion
🇸🇦 $83 billion
🇨🇳 $168 billion
🇺🇸 $700 billion
What if—just maybe—we led the world not in weapons and war, but in fighting humanity's common enemy: climate change?
Wealth of Jeff Bezos in 2009: $6.8 billion
Wealth of Jeff Bezos in 2020: $184 billion
Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg in 2009: $2 billion
Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg in 2020: $103 billion
U.S. Minimum Wage from 2009-2020: $7.25
We need an economy that works for all of us, not the 1%.
The cost of a standard unit of insulin:
🇦🇺 $6.94
🇬🇧 $7.52
🇫🇷 $9.08
🇩🇪 $11.00
🇨🇦 $12.00
🇯🇵 $14.00
🇺🇸 $98.70
Our job: End the greed, collusion and price-fixing of the pharmaceutical industry and substantially lower drug prices.
Yes. Trump's not alone.
Federal income taxes paid by corporations a year after his tax plan was signed into law:
$0: Amazon
$0: GM
$0: Netflix
$0: Chevron
$0: FedEx
$0: Eli Lilly
$0: Starbucks
Dr. King was right. We have socialism for the rich, rugged capitalism for the rest.
“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God's children.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
No, Attorney General Sessions. Marijuana is not the same as heroin. No one who has seriously studied the issue believes that. Quite the contrary. We should allow states the right to move toward the decriminalization of marijuana, not reverse the progress that has been made.
I'm sorry Mr. Bezos won't join our hearing on income and wealth inequality. As the wealthiest person on earth I'd love to hear his reasoning as to why he is vigorously opposing a union organizing effort at Amazon which would improve wages and benefits for struggling workers.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos declines an invitation from Sen. Bernie Sanders to testify at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on income inequality cnn.it/3tfeIFu
Here is the simple truth:
We have a president who is a racist.
A president who is a sexist.
A president who is a homophobe.
A president who is a xenophobe.
And a president who is a religious bigot.
We have got to confront that truth and reject Trump's bigotry.
When we say it's time to provide health care to all our people, we're told we can't afford it.
But if the stock market is in trouble, no problem! The government can just hand out $1.5 trillion to calm bankers on Wall Street.
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Fed is injecting $1.5 trillion into short-term lending markets, a rare move to try to calm investors' worries about coronavirus washingtonpost.com/business/2020/
The "radical idea" of universal health care is a reality in:
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Chile
Czech Rep.
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
S. Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switz.
Turkey
U.K.
I applaud President Biden for once again pausing federal student loan payments for 45 million Americans. Now let’s cancel it. All of it.
People who can't afford health care don't deserve to die. It's crazy that we even have to say that.
Where'd you get your PhD? Trump University? twitter.com/HouseScience/s
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I disagreed with President Bush all the time. I never called him a pathological liar. He was just conservative. But Trump lies all the time.
No, Mr. President. This is a provocative effort by Neo-Nazis to foment racism and hatred and create violence. Call it out for what it is.
John McCain was an American hero, a man of decency and honor and a friend of mine. He will be missed not just in the U.S. Senate but by all Americans who respect integrity and independence. Jane and I send our deepest condolences to his family.
If Rob Walton, a key owner of Walmart, can afford an estimated $226 million for an antique car collection that includes 12 Ferraris, 6 Porsches, 2 Maseratis and a 1963 Corvette Grand Sport Roadster, you know what? Walmart can afford to pay at least $15/hour to all of its workers.
By pardoning Sheriff Arpaio, Trump has again made clear he will use the powers of the presidency to defend racism and discrimination.
Shock. Shock. Shock. Gas prices are at the highest level in 7 years while Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell & BP made nearly $25 billion in profits last quarter – the highest level in over 7 years. The problem is not inflation. The problem is corporate greed, collusion & profiteering.
Marijuana must be legalized. All our people imprisoned because of it must be returned home to their families and their records expunged.
What I really like about Mr. Trump is how true to his word he always is.
Cancel student debt now. All of it.
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Today, the student debt crisis reached $1,751,280,163,588
Cost of public college tuition:
Germany: $0
France: $0
Sweden: $0
Norway: $0
Finland: $0
Brazil: $0
United States: $10,486
In the richest country in the world, yes, we must make public colleges and trade schools tuition-free and cancel all student debt.
What gives me hope right now are the new generations of young people who dream big and do not want to settle for the status quo.
Our job is to demilitarize police departments so they do not look like and act like oppressing armies.
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I’m hit in the leg by a rubber bullet but am fine. State Police supported by National guard fired unprovoked into an entirely peaceful rally
Let's remember why NFL players started kneeling. They are talking about the need for criminal justice reform and police department reform.
Hey, Mr. President: Instead of copying France's military parade, why not copy France's health care system? Health care for all, low-cost prescription drugs, much less expensive.
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Exclusive: At Trump’s direction, Pentagon is planning large-scale military parade inspired by France's Bastille Day celebration wapo.st/2EJUxY0
Let's be clear. If 10 Republican Senators cannot even vote for a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6th insurrection, 10 Republican Senators will not vote for anything meaningful to improve the lives of the American people. We must abolish the filibuster & act now.
Cardi B is right. If we are really going to make America great we need to strengthen Social Security so that seniors are able to retire with the dignity they deserve.
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FDR is "the real 'Make America Great Again' President because of it weren't for him, older Americans wouldn't even get Social Security." - @iamcardib
Pretty pathetic. Mr. Trump is a coward who tears down others to make himself feel powerful.
Today and I demanded a vote on $2,000 for working people. It’s simple—no vote, no new year's break for Senators.
In my view, an asthma inhaler that is sold to the Canadian people for just $27 should not cost the American people $242. Period.
The entire First Family represented our country with extraordinary dignity, grace and civility over the last eight years. Thank you.
Trump's decision on DACA is the ugliest and most cruel decision ever made by a president of the U.S. in the modern history of this country.
We looked into it, . It’s called the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. You should check it out some time.
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Trump: "It's frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write and people should look into it." (via CBS)
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If Trump decides to end DACA, it will be one of the ugliest and cruelest decisions ever made by a president in our modern history.
I find it very strange that President Trump has such a hard time getting along with the leaders of the world's major democracies but feels very comfortable with despots and authoritarian leaders like Putin, Xi Jinping, Duterte and Mohammad Bin Salman.
If Trump could get $287 million of his debt canceled for his bogus real estate deals, please don't tell me we can't cancel the student debt of 45 million Americans who committed the "crime" of getting a college education.
If Jeff Bezos can afford a $500 million yacht, a $23 million mansion with 25 bathrooms and a rocket ship to blast a comedian to outer space, you know what? Amazon can afford to give its employees a $3 raise. I stand in strong solidarity with the Amazon workers walkout.
Donald Trump and Republicans just celebrated voting to let thousands of Americans die so that billionaires get tax breaks. Think about that.
It is truly sad and dangerous that only 7 Republicans voted to convict a president who is promoting a Big Lie, conspiracy theories and violence, and is aggressively trying to destroy American democracy.
How is it that there is always money for war but never enough money for the children, the sick, the hungry, and the poor?
When it comes to tax avoidance, Trump is not alone.
Federal income taxes paid in 2020:
Nike: $0
FedEx: $0
HP: $0
Salesforce: $0
Dish Network: $0
Charter Communications: $0
Duke Energy: $0
Yes. Dr. King was right. We have socialism for the rich, rugged capitalism for the rest.
Here's what happened when a Republican senator challenged a Canadian doctor on their single-payer health care system.
If Saudi Arabia, one of the worst violators of human rights in the world, wants to partner with Russia to jack up US gas prices, it can get Putin to defend its monarchy. We must pull all US troops out of Saudi Arabia, stop selling them weapons & end its price-fixing oil cartel.
Starbucks could give every one of its 383,000 workers a $5,000 bonus & still keep $2.6 billion in profits from last year. Instead they're raising prices while spending $20 billion on stock buybacks & dividends when profits are up 31%. Don't blame inflation. Blame corporate greed.
The attack by Israeli forces against mourners at the funeral of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is an outrage. The United States must condemn this, and demand an independent investigation into her killing.
I don't make it a habit to respond to every ugly tweet from President Trump. If I did, I’d have little time for anything else. But even for Trump, today's retweets of a series of offensive videos from a British right-wing, anti-Muslim fringe group reaches a new low.
BREAKING: Senate Republicans just released the schedule of hearings, committee markups and public testimony for their health care bill.
Minimum wage in Australia: $19.84 an hour
Unemployment rate in Australia: 6.6%
U.S. federal minimum wage: $7.25 an hour
U.S. unemployment rate: 6.7%
Please don't tell me raising the minimum wage to a living wage - at least $15 an hour - costs jobs.
Wall Street cannot continue functioning as a gambling casino. It's time for a tax on Wall Street speculation so that we can raise the funds to cancel student debt and make public colleges and universities tuition-free.
"Out of an abundance of caution," we should expand Medicare to cover everyone in America.
Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement is an abdication of American leadership and an international disgrace.
Cost of a standard unit of insulin:
United States: $98.70
Japan: $14.40
Canada: $12.00
Germany: $11.00
France: $9.08
United Kingdom: $7.52
Here's what the price of a standard unit of insulin would cost if my Prescription Drug Price Relief Act passed: $10.80. Let's get it done.
While Walmart refuses to raise its $11 minimum wage, Alice Walton had no problem purchasing a $500 million private art collection, buying a $25 million 2-floor Park Avenue condo with 52 windows and acquiring a $22 million 4,400-acre Texas ranch. Something is very wrong here.
COVID-19 deaths:
United States: 225,000
Population: 328.2 million
COVID-19 deaths:
Canada: 9,963
Japan: 1,716
Australia: 905
South Korea: 457
Vietnam: 35
New Zealand: 25
Taiwan: 7
Total deaths: 13,108
Total population: 364.6 million
Donald Trump: "It is what it is." Pathetic.
What world does Trump live in where it's acceptable to attack the mayor of San Juan while he plays golf with his billionaire friends?
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...Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They....
If it's radical to think that someone working 40 hours a week shouldn't be living in poverty, then yes, count me as a radical.
Inflation Rate
🇪🇺: 10.9%
🇩🇪: 10.9%
🇬🇧: 10.1%
🇮🇹: 9.4%
🇪🇸: 9%
🇮🇪: 8.6%
🇺🇸: 8.2%
No. Inflation is not going up in the U.S. because the working class got a $1,400 check 19 months ago. Multinational corporations are jacking up prices worldwide.
We are in a pivotal moment in American history. We have a president who is delusional. He is a pathological liar.
I say to my Republican colleagues: The American people are catching on. While you may get away with this act of looting tonight, history is not on your side.
When Trump said we need to promote clean air and clean water, I had a hard time not laughing. Today he rolled back clean water rules.
You know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year?
Zero.
