U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee. Follow for updates from Vice Chair @PattyMurray & staff. Fighting back against a pro-billionaire, pro-corruption agenda.
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Apr 30
Speaker Johnson extended the DHS shutdown for over a MONTH for no reason at all. This is the same bill the Senate passed five weeks ago.
An inexcusable failure by House Republicans. But it’s a very good thing the TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, & more will finally be funded.
Apr 30
BREAKING: House approves a bill to fund the Homeland Security Department, sending it to President Trump to sign. apnews.com/article/homeland-…
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Apr 29
Sen. Ossoff on Trump's budget proposal: "The priorities are all out of whack."
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Apr 29
On April 1st, Speaker Johnson vowed to fund DHS "in the coming days."
Must have been an April Fools’ joke because INSTEAD, Johnson has extended the shutdown for FOUR WEEKS and counting.
So if Speaker Johnson is looking for someone to blame for the shutdown, get him a mirror.
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Apr 27
REMINDER: The Senate unanimously passed a bill to fund DHS 31 days ago. We passed it unanimously AGAIN 25 days ago.
But instead of ending the DHS shutdown and funding agencies like TSA & the Secret Service, Speaker Johnson has dragged his feet & failed to put it up for a vote.
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Karoline is right. The defunding of DHS is a scandal.
The Senate UNANIMOUSLY passed a bill to fund Secret Service & TSA, but MAGA House Republicans have held it up for a month to secure more money for mass deportations.
If this Admin is serious about DHS, it needs to get its own house in order.
Apr 27
"Make no mistake, this defunding of DHS should be a national scandal," @PressSec says at briefing after shooting outside WHCA dinner.
"This is a national emergency, and every member of Congress needs to put their country over party and get the Department of Homeland Security funded."
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Apr 21
The President spent more on bombs in ONE WEEK of his war with Iran than we spend in an entire YEAR to help parents afford child care.
Trump & RFK Jr. are asking to spend $500B more for war—but they won't increase funding for child care by a cent.
Apr 21
PATTY MURRAY: What happened to childcare in this budget?
RFK Jr: Ok, let's talk about childcare then instead of the war
MURRAY: Just so it's clear, the president is requesting $1.5t in defense which cuts our non-defense incredibly
RFK Jr: It's not my department
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Endless money for bombs. No money for your health care. RFK, Jr. owes us answers.
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Apr 16
Murray: "We should be sending money to our schools, not buying more missiles that Trump can fire on schools in Iran. We should be building bridges here in America, not destroying them in Iran. This budget would rob our families and burden our grandkids with mountains of new debt, and for what? So Trump has more bombs he can threaten to end civilizations with?"
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Apr 16
Trump's Budget Director Russ Vought just REFUSED to tell me how much of YOUR taxpayer dollars Trump has already spent on his war of choice with Iran.
That's outrageous. It's literally his job to know, and the American people deserve answers!
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Donald Trump might be happy to spend more money on bombs in the Middle East than on families here in America—but I am not.
The only responsible thing to do with a budget this morally bankrupt is to toss it in the trash.
President Trump's new budget proposal asks Congress for $1.5 trillion in defense spending — a 42% increase — while cutting nondefense spending by $73 billion, or 10%. cbsn.ws/4m8CiAr
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Mar 28
Who runs this account?
We literally passed a bill with all of you to fund this…
Mar 28
Thank a Democrat for long lines and disrupted air travel.
Thank President Trump for doing everything he can to keep airports open.
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Mar 28
The Senate passed a bill to fund all of DHS except ICE and Border Patrol.
And we did it with the unanimous consent of ALL 100 SENATORS.
Speaker Johnson refused to vote on this bill and chose to continue holding TSA hostage and to continue Trump's chaos.
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Mar 28
We had a 100-0 bipartisan deal in the Senate and the House blew it up because the Republicans who run Congress apparently don’t talk to each other and prefer chaos.
Mar 28
House Republicans pass their own DHS funding bill, prolonging the shutdown and setting up a clash with the Senate cnn.it/4tfzvrr
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Mar 29
The good news is Speaker Johnson still has time to do the right thing & bring the Senate-passed bill to the floor. House GOP can reopen DHS & get it fully running any time the Speaker feels like it. This GOP shutdown will only last as long as Republican leaders want it to last.
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Mar 27
BREAKING: Republicans have relented to Democratic demands to fund the rest of DHS besides ICE & Border Patrol.
No more holding TSA hostage. No blank check for ICE & Border Patrol. We need real reforms & accountability. I'll keep fighting for exactly that.
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Mar 25
Every day Democrats go the Senate floor to try to open TSA. Every day Republicans block our legislation. Why? Because Republicans are holding TSA hostage to get another blank check for ICE.
Release the hostage! Open TSA!
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Mar 25
BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA.
Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.
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Every time Republicans have blocked Democrats from funding TSA.
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Senate Appropriations Dems retweeted
Mar 25
Trump is holding TSA pay hostage all to try to disenfranchise tens of millions of American citizens over delusions of voter fraud.
Rein in ICE. Pay TSA. NO to the SAVE Trump Act.
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