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Trump: "If you go a couple of years out, you're gonna see numbers like you've never seen. We're building some of the biggest building ever built anywhere in the world. The AI buildings."

But thank god we remodeled the Oval Office to look like a Saudi palace, right?

My in laws Obamacare is going from $1800/month to $4125/month

A full 50k a year

Clarifying question: Does needlessly keeping food from working families make us great? Or is it keeping it from seniors on fixed incomes?

This Administration is trying to give us a false choice - don’t buy it.

It’s bullshit to say we can’t feed the hungry AND care for the sick. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. We can do both.

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govNov 3(source)

Nothing like a Gatsby party for your uber rich friends at Mar-A-Lago while millions of your neighbors get priced out of health insurance. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, @warren.senate.gov and I just touched down in Florida because while Trump won’t fight for his neighbors, we will.

Photo of President Trump at a Great Gatsby party held at Mar-A-Lago.

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govOct 31(source)

Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govOct 30(source)

Dear Leader is refusing to help hungry families buy food... and somehow that’s OUR fault because we were greedy enough to want to help Americans afford health care.

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govOct 30(source)

Dear Leader is refusing to help hungry families buy food... and somehow that’s OUR fault because we were greedy enough to want to help Americans afford health care.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "On Saturday, things are gonna become very dire."

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govOct 29(source)

Heck yeah. Stand up. Fight back.

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Heck yeah. Stand up. Fight back.

Kyle Griffin

Reuters: DEMOCRATIC-LED STATES FILE LAWSUIT TO BLOCK TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM SUSPENDING SNAP BENEFITS DURING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

The only way out of this is to negotiate and we’ve been ready for a month. Stonewalling us just holds federal workers, our troops and hungry families hostage because Republicans don’t have a health care plan beyond “don’t be poor”

They say the definition of insanity is trying the same damn thing over and over and over again expecting a different result.

CBS News

@cbsnews.com

BREAKING: The Senate vote on a bill to reopen the government fails for the 13th time, with the shutdown now in its 4th week.

Reposted byTina Smith

Senator Peter Welch@welch.senate.govOct 28(source)

I’ve been in Congress for shutdowns before, but this one is different. I’ve never witnessed a shutdown where the President of either party has told congressional leaders to not negotiate at all. He's choosing to raise health care costs for millions of families.

Tweeting this when you haven’t come to work a single day since the shutdown started is really brave.

House Committee on Agriculture
@HouseAgGOP

Senator Smith voted twelve times to shutdown
SNAP benefits.

Are we living in the same timeline?

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Q: Is any work being done on a Republican solution to the healthcare cliff? MIKE JOHNSON: When I say that Republicans have been working on a fix for healthcare, we've been doing this for years. We're doing right now what we have been doing.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

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Punchbowl reports “White House officials determined they do not have the authority” to use contingency reserves —billions of $ that Congress provided for use when SNAP funding is inadequate— to fund Nov. SNAP benefits. But, that’s not what USDA’s now-deleted shutdown plan says: