They are all using the same useless talking point, which amounts to nothing more than "look how bad the optics will continue be for the heartless GOP".

"Optics" won't pay financially crippling health care premiums for millions who won't be able to afford them come January. This is disgusting.

We don't need "to see" where the parties stand on ACA. We have always been able to see. Every single year since 2010. This is a useless conversation.

Private jets grounded at a dozen airports nationwide From Monday, private jet operations have been restricted at 12 airports amid the ongoing government shutdown.

Private jets getting grounded too. Imagine the screaming.

42 million Americans can go hungry, but disrupting the holiday travel plans of the comfortable and the uber wealthy- **that's** what ends a shutdown.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Why should you tell us what you're going to do?

Because it's our taxpayer money, our health needs, our lives and *you work or us*. THAT's why, you arrogant pricks.

Ahem.
@rosen.senate.gov
@shaheen.senate.gov
@kaine.senate.gov
@fetterman.senate.gov
@hassan.senate.gov
@senangusking.bsky.social (unverified)
@durbin.senate.gov
@sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us

Here’s the list of the eight Democrats who caved:

⚫️ Catherine Cortez Masto
⚫️ Dick Durbin
⚫️ John Fetterman
⚫️ Maggie Hassan
⚫️ Tim Kaine
⚫️ Angus King
⚫️ Jackie Rosen
⚫️ Jeanne Shaheen

Their excuses don’t hold water. They betrayed all Americans who were counting on them to stand firm and keep fighting.

Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)

The politics of the shutdown:
*GOP had a strong opening position
*Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP
*Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change
*Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

President Biden spotted flying commercial at O’Hare Airport

ht: @saymaysmith.bsky.social

I love him 💗🤍💙

Although, the night is young....😟

Schumer's a no Live updates and analysis from POLITICO’s Congress team.

Schumer's a no -

"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer emerged from an evening caucus meeting telling reporters, `I’m voting no” on the new shutdown deal", as he walked on the Senate floor."

Live Updates - POLITICO #Schumer #ShutdownDeal

They've got him on the ropes, with the biggest bloody nose. Don't let him off now!

Same! As well as "The Patriot Act"-- a 340+ page document, which nobody in the Senate was able to claim they'd read (except may Russ Feingold) but they passed it 98-1.

REMINDER: President Biden NEVER cut SNAP payments, never even had a government shutdown.

In fact, he cut child poverty in half.
He cut child hunger, too.

I miss having a REAL President.

So at the beginning of Nov Congress would have been paid, unless they specifically had their pay check held.

I would argue they should donate it because they haven’t worked.

Maybe a good question for reporters to catalog?

omg

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

Thank you!

Exclusive | DOJ Special Attorney Ed Martin checks out Tish James’ ‘mortgage fraud’ home after being tapped for probes Department of Justice Special Attorney Ed Martin was spotted in Brooklyn Friday inspecting Tish James’ multi-family residential property that is at the center of a federal mortgage fraud investigat…

Buffoon (in a trench in August) when confronted:

“I’m just happy to be on a block looking at houses . . . I’m just looking at houses, interesting houses. It’s an important house.”

This is a great repurposing of a servile 60 Minutes interview.

This is just insane. Insane!

Trying to imagine the media response if Biden had fought so hard to keep people hungry.

Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester

Caught in more lies- AGAIN

Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago

#CBP #DHS #Bovino

What is happening?!?