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Instead of working to re-open the government, the President is using the shutdown as an excuse to go after American cities.

This is an authoritarian power grab that directly hurts Americans.

Donald Trump has made it clear that his priority has always been himself.

Trump last year vs. Trump in the middle of a government shutdown:

Today, a federal court is hearing a case to block ICE from accessing taxpayer data. 

If ICE can pierce tax record privacy, millions of families will be at risk, and it won’t stop there. 

#StopTrumpsTrackdown

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The Trump admin has completely gutted the Office of Fair Housing and fired the federal workers investigating housing discrimination.

A core civil rights protection against discrimination is being dismantled.

Federal workers are sounding the alarm.

BREAKING: Public Citizen has filed 7 new complaints against the the CDC, DOJ, FDA, HHS, OMB, USDA, and the White House for violating the Hatch Act with their partisan propaganda.

Every agency that participates in this blatantly illegal scheme must be held accountable.

Americans can't afford healthcare or childcare, but we’re so glad that Trump can have mountains of gold in his office.

The White House must publish the text of the Pfizer deal, so Americans know what we are getting.

We filed a FOIA request to HHS to release the details of the agreement: www.citizen.org/news/public-...

Trump announced a secret deal between his administration and Pfizer.

We have very little info to know how this impacts drug prices (Trump’s record on that certainly sucks)..

But we do know that secret deals with Big Pharma is a bad way to make good health policy.

The Department of Energy has now banned the following words and phrases:

climate change, green, decarbonization, energy transition, clean energy, emissions, sustainability, tax breaks, carbon footprint.

This is dystopian and should terrify anyone paying attention.

ICYMI: The Trump admin is now displaying these messages on most federal agency websites.

Public Citizen just filed another complaint against the Small Business Administration for this Hatch Act violation.

We will continue to fight against these partisan and unlawful acts.

BREAKING: Public Citizen has filed a complaint against Trump's HUD for its disturbing pop-up message (on the agency's homepage!!) blaming the "Radical Left" for the Republicans’ government shutdown.

Using taxpayer dollars to campaign against Democrats is a clear violation of the Hatch Act.

MAGA Republicans made their priorities very clear with this shutdown: they don't give a damn about working people.

Public Citizen co-president @lisa-pubcitizen.bsky.social joined Rep. Joe Morelle last night to talk about this dangerous and avoidable mess:

What is NSPM-7? Over 3,000 nonprofits sound alarm on new Trump directive The directive sparked concerns from law firms and nonprofits, more than 3,000 of have signed onto an open letter rebuking it.

The Trump admin's latest attack on nonprofits is yet another abuse of power & threat to free speech.

This is a dangerous & unAmerican witch hunt.

We will not be silenced by the President's authoritarian power play.

Read the letter signed by 3000+ nonprofits:

www.newsweek.com/what-is-nspm...

MAGA Republicans have officially shut down the government.

The harm and chaos this is causing was completely avoidable.

Republicans must end their government shutdown now by passing a budget that protects health care and affirms Congress's power of the purse.

Health Care Over Billionaires Rally Republicans are currently pushing the country towards a government shutdown, higher ACA premiums, and possibly massive mandatory cuts to Medicare by putting tax breaks to billionaires over essential s...

Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are pushing us towards a government shutdown.

We demand a budget that puts American families over billionaires.

Join us TONIGHT to call for a fair tax system and a budget that actually invests in working families: actionnetwork.org/events/healt...

The money to fund the government runs out TONIGHT.

MAGA Republicans are shutting down the government because they are refusing to negotiate, trashing the power of the purse, and destroying health care access for millions of Americans.

It's that simple.

The Trump admin is pouring $625 million into the coal industry & selling 13 millions acres of public lands.

This will hurt consumers and destroy the environment.

And for what? So Trump's billionaire buddies in the failing fossil fuel industry can hoard more money.

Trump seems to think that the National Guard is some pawn he can play whenever he wants to feel powerful.

But let's be clear about what he's doing: he is using the US military against its own people.

This is authoritarianism.

BREAKING NEWS: People really don’t like when their president starts acting like a dictator.

Trump and Congressional Republicans are willing to cut what Americans depend on most - health care, education, and food assistance.

But they're not willing to negotiate on the budget.

If this refusal leads to a government shutdown, they will be to blame.

BREAKING: Supreme Court ruling allows the Trump admin to unilaterally refuse to spend $4B in congressionally appropriated foreign assistance funds.

The ruling allows the admin to ignore Congress's power of the purse – in violation of fundamental separation of powers principles.

Grok referred to itself as "MecahHilter" not even three months ago.

And somehow the Trump admin seems to think it is qualified to be used throughout the US government.

This is so incredibly dumb and dangerous.

Donald Trump appointed a hand picked prosecutor to punish a political adversary.

The indictment of James Comey is yet another authoritarian overreach of our justice system.

This wanna-be dictator continues to be the biggest threat to our democracy.

This kind of bullshit is what we get for appointing yes men instead of experts to head the EPA.

PS: EPA stands for Environmental Protection Agency. So maybe instead of denying the climate crisis, we could get to work on protecting the environment.

BREAKING: Trump signed a presidential memo threatening political opponents with criminal investigations.

This is a dangerous, unconstitutional, and wildly unAmerican witch hunt

He wants to intimidate and silence. We won't let him.

Thanks to health leaders Emily Bass, Mitchell Warren, Asia Russell, Amanda Banda, and Isata Dumbuya. And to our event co-hosts UNAIDS, Health GAP, People's Medicines Alliance, UAEM, Treatment Action Group, RESULTS, and Partners In Health.

We had a critical discussion about continuing the fight to bring medicines to all, with the first step being bringing that breakthrough — at that price — to the world.

Thanks to UNAIDS' Winnie Byanyima and Unitaid's Tenu Avafia for joining us today and for your leadership.