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Thanks to Senate Republicans, 17 million people will lose their health care.
— Kamala Harris (@kamalaharris.com) 2025-07-01T18:16:26.867Z
Thanks to Senate Republicans, three million Americans, including veterans and seniors, will lose food assistance.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, families will see their energy bills go up by 0 a year.
Senate Republicans are doing all of this and more â hurting working people across our nation â in order to pay for trillion in tax cuts for billionaires.
— Kamala Harris (@kamalaharris.com) 2025-07-01T18:16:26.868Z
There is still time to stop this bill before it passes in the House. Call 202-224-3121 and tell your representative to vote no.
SheltieLover
(81,745 posts)newdeal2
(5,625 posts)chicoescuela
(3,216 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(4,746 posts)chicoescuela
(3,216 posts)Keepthesoulalive
(2,416 posts)I will not comply. I would suggest you give people encouragement to keep up the fight, instead of keeping it real.
chicoescuela
(3,216 posts)Sadly only one option will be left.
bdamomma
(69,629 posts)it's us, power in numbers. Never do this
ShazzieB
(22,886 posts)I mean, they act like they always know exactly what's going to happen before it happens....and they always "know" it's going to be the worst thing possible! /s
Personally, I call that defeatism, but then I was raised not to give up on anything without a fight!
Cha
(320,703 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(182,166 posts)Alice Kramden
(2,966 posts)betsuni
(29,306 posts)Am angry seeing too many Both Sides Democrat bashing. Right here Harris and other Democrats called "Republican Lite."
But eggs...
ITAL
(1,382 posts)And our reps are already voting no anyway. Still, I like the "buck up troops" thought.
Iamscrewed
(486 posts)iluvtennis
(21,527 posts)Grim Chieftain
(2,064 posts)Trump's actions and inaction's are on the heads of everyone who voted for him, and those who knew better and stayed home.
Kid Berwyn
(25,120 posts)No one in command of their critical faculties would vote otherwise.
czarjak
(13,678 posts)Gimpyknee
(1,025 posts)Voters did not listen to your warnings in November. I find those who stayed home complicit in the tearing down of democracy.
kwolf68
(8,452 posts)Our nation is awash in spectacle. Trump exploited the "entertainers" model that there is NO such thing as bad publicity. The rock band Motley Crue wanted to be in the papers, if they were beating up women, dying, destroying property, or wrecking and killing people, the fact they were NOTORIOUS brought interest to them. And they sold records, millions of them. TRUMP did the same thing. He said the most outlandish crazy shit, even gave a blowjob to a microphone and WON the fucking vote. That's what we're dealing with. No idea what we can do.
Jack Valentino
(5,252 posts)If that's true, I missed it or have forgotten it....
I do recall that Donald Trump killed people with his covid policies and propaganda,
but that was more recent...
WizumbODaSage
(42 posts)slightlv
(7,955 posts)and not all that were accused of doing so. NO ONE will be able to convince me that election was hijacked. And the next ones will be hijacked, as well. They've got the technology, the evil intentions, and the knowledge of how to do it. They did it; they've BEEN doing it for years. They just threw all caution to the wind in 2024 and went for broke.
But you know WHO I blame for 2024 turning out the way it did? The politicians who didn't get into office... the democrats who just shrugged their shoulders and said, "oh, well... if we say anything we believe we'll come off sounding like them." We didn't so much lose that election as we GAVE it trump.
Jack Valentino
(5,252 posts)about 2.5 to 5 trillion, over the next 10 years...
summer_in_TX
(4,279 posts)from Republican-aligned PACs urging me to call my member of Congress RIGHT NOW to urge them to support Trump's Big Ugly Bill. I was in the meeting for maybe 3 hours, and came out to find they're pulling out all the stops to get members of Congress to pass it as is.
We need to heat up the phones tomorrow and until they vote like never before. The bill is a monstrosity and fiscally insanely irresponsible.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,518 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,939 posts)My Representative was Sylvester Turner, who died.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)... as well as those who supported and promoted it.
bdamomma
(69,629 posts)made my call yesterday. Maybe another party will emerge out of this horrific situation.
bdamomma
(69,629 posts)nt
Festivito
(13,920 posts)It is part of the calculation that allows for those costs to be transferred to the rich-people tax cuts.
Cha
(320,703 posts)Trueblue Texan
(4,615 posts)
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