Mark Takano
@MarkTakano
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Born and raised in Riverside. Proud to serve the families of the Inland Empire in the United States House of Representatives. #CA39
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BIG NEWS: I’ve just introduced legislation in Congress calling for a four-day work week. It’s well past time that Americans have more time to live their lives, and not just work. Retweet if you agree, we need to make this a reality.
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I’ve always admired
@BernieSanders
for the brave leadership he has displayed in Congress. I think he’s got the clearest history of protecting Medicare & Social Security, and I’ve seen him get things done for our veterans. That’s why he has my endorsement.
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It’s a Democratic majority OR a nationwide abortion ban.
It’s a Democratic majority OR Social Security cuts.
It’s a Democratic majority OR gutting voting rights.
That’s what is on the line in 2024. Vote blue.
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If you want to help pass this critical bill, can you chip in here? Republicans really want to stop progressives like me from succeeding.
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Yesterday’s vote makes it clear: California will not allow Republicans to play their games in our state. Like this if you are thankful that California will stay blue.
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CALIFORNIANS: Let’s all vote NO on this recall and support Governor Newsom. Retweet if you are voting NO.
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My statement on why I believe President Joe Biden should pass the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris.
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My name is Mark Takano. I’m a gay man, an Asian-American, and I am proudly fighting for our values in Congress. Retweet if you’re with me.
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Today is the day!! Vote NO on the recall and keep California blue.
Retweet if you are supporting Governor Newsom today.
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Remember when Republicans said they wouldn’t touch Social Security?
Guess what—they lied. Again.
Today, the Republican Study Committee (RSC), which counts 70 percent of House Republicans as members, released its 2024 budget proposal.
The RSC plan makes massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, destroying the programs as we know them.
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We need to stand up for
@GavinNewsom
and his bold agenda to make life better for Californians. There is still time to vote 'NO' and
#StopTheRepublicanRecall
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House Republicans want to raise the retirement age to 69 so they can make YOU pay for tax giveaways to the rich.
Americans should not be forced to work until they die just because the GOP doesn’t want to do its job. I won't let them get away with it.
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I’m gay. So I’m horrified to see the chipping away of LGBTQ+ protections across the country.
In fact, HRC has said that 2021 is the worst year for anti-LGBTQ legislation in recent history.
It’s simple: I believe every single person deserves the dignity of equal rights.
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Reproductive healthcare is a human right, regardless of what the Supreme Court thinks about it.
Today's decision is awful and wrong.
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I’M FURIOUS: I passed the PACT Act so America could do good on its promise to care for our veterans.
Now, House Republicans are attempting to slash $14.7 BILLION from the PACT Act’s Toxic Exposures fund for burn pit victims.
Retweet so every voter knows the truth.
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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Ten years ago today, LGBTQ Americans were finally allowed to serve proudly and freely in the armed forces. I take great pride in our nation’s LGBTQ service members and how they represent the best of America.
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Donald Trump officially endorsed a nationwide abortion ban this past weekend.
MAGA Republicans in Congress are ready to do Trump’s bidding and will not rest until they rip away fundamental rights from every woman.
We must pass the Women’s Health Protection Act to stop them.
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Republicans have been in the majority for nearly 6 months and all they’ve done is:
– Defend Donald Trump.
– Refuse to pay America’s bills.
– Fight for $1 trillion in tax giveaways to the ultra-wealthy.
As a former teacher, they'd get an 𝐅 on their report card from me!
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Let’s set the record straight: House Republicans voted to cut veterans care, food assistance, and rip Medicaid from 600,000 Americans last week.
House Democrats voted no.
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MAGA Republicans are once again trying to impeach President Biden to distract from the fact they’ve done nothing for the American people since they took the majority.
Make sure everyone knows this.
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Bad news for Republicans, Good news for America: House Democrats have an economic plan that cuts costs without cutting critical programs.
We won’t let MAGA Republicans implode our economy and our future.
Speaker McCarthy and I reached a bipartisan budget agreement that will prevent the worst possible crisis – a default for the first time in our nation’s history.
This deal is good news for the American people.
I strongly urge Congress to pass the agreement right away.
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Paul Gosar’s conduct against
@AOC
was disturbing and disgusting. Democrats voted to censure him because we need to set an example of civility in our politics. Retweet if you agree with this decision.
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This brat summer makes me want to rewind on the great work of our VP.
@KamalaHarris
has made history and her leadership is something we all can be proud of.
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Abortion is on the ballot in 2024.
If Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans take control they will kill abortion rights.
They’re out-of-touch with America and that’s why Democrats will flip the House. It’s that simple.
That’s about as clear as it gets. Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are responsible for killing Roe v. Wade. And if you vote for them, they’ll go even further.
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Republicans want cuts? Let’s put some reasonable spending cuts on the table — starting with: Big Pharma, Big Oil, and wealthy tax giveaways.
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The average billionaire in America pays 8% in federal taxes.
As a former teacher, me and my colleagues paid at least 20%.
Enough is enough. It’s time to implement a minimum tax for billionaires.
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I used to teach English at a public high school.
House Republicans voted to cut up to 60,000 teaching jobs, leaving more than 25 million kids without a proper education.
I proudly voted no because we should be investing in our teachers, students, and schools.
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217 House Republicans voted to cut education funding, fire nearly 60,000 teachers, and leave more than 25 million kids without a proper education.
I voted no and I’ll do it again because our teachers, kids, and communities deserve better.
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71% of Americans support same-sex marriage.
The overwhelming majority do not support the GOP’s hateful, bigoted agenda.
Next year, we must flip the House to ensure every American's right to love is protected.
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🚨Republicans are attempting a hostile takeover of California. They’re pouring millions of dollars into California to target Dems!
Will you join our fight to stop the MAGA party?
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George Santos is not one bad apple. He’s a part of a tree called the GOP that’s rotten to its core.
He should resign from office. If he won't, my Republican colleagues should begin expulsion proceedings.
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Insulin costs $35 per month for seniors on Medicare because my fellow House Democrats and I fought to lower prescription drug costs.
Every House Republican voted no.
Make sure voters never forget that.
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The same Republicans in Congress who received relief from PPP loans voted to block student loan forgiveness.
The PPP program costs $760 billion, that’s $360 billion more than student debt relief costs. That’s peak GOP hypocrisy.
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Ted Cruz owes the American people answers as to why he’s targeting trans women instead of passing legislation to take weapons of war out of our schools.
Bud Light owes the American people answers about why they targeted kids and teenagers by partnering with Dylan Mulvaney.
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I’m Mark Takano—the 1st gay person of color to be elected to Congress. I authored the PACT Act and introduced a bill to make a 4-day workweek federal law.
I’m fighting the GOP’s extreme agenda and I need your help. Can you retweet to help me reach 10,000 followers?
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OUR MOVEMENT IS GROWING: the 32-hour work week is making news.
“[Mark Takano] introduced legislation in July that would reduce the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours under the Fair Labor Standards Act.”
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House Democrats support a plan that cuts spending by over $1 trillion without making a single cut to VA funding or Medicare.
Contrary to what Kevin McCarthy says, we can cut costs and keep critical programs.
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Republicans voted against the PACT Act that I led to passage last year.
Now, they are threatening to cut nearly 25% of healthcare and food assistance benefits for veterans.
You can count on me to vote NO on this terrible bill. House Democrats will always support our veterans.
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Reproductive rights are human rights. Retweet if you agree.
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House Democrats ensured that no one making less than $400,000 a year will pay a penny more in federal taxes. Pass it on.
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70% of House Republicans are proposing cuts to Social Security in next year’s budget.
72% of Americans oppose their agenda.
House Republicans are fighting the interests of the American people, plain and simple.
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MAGA Republicans are threatening to slash billions in VA spending.
Their “grand economic plan” is to cut healthcare, food assistance, and evict veterans out of their homes.
That’s how they choose to treat those who risked their lives for our country.
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If anyone deserves support from the government, it’s veterans. They fought for it, literally.
I’ll vote no to the GOP’s proposals to slash veteran care every time.
That’s a promise.
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Republicans say that mental health is the issue, not guns.
Yet, 205 House Republicans voted against mental health services in schools.
They have ZERO interest in ending gun violence. Don’t believe me?—take a look at their lack of action.
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The Republican plan will lay off 30,000 law enforcement officers across the country.
House Republicans support defunding law enforcement. House Democrats do not.
That’s why I voted no on their bill. Democrats will always vote NO to law enforcement cuts.
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House Democrats rejected the GOP’s budget plan that would have resulted in 30 million fewer outpatient visits for veterans and instead fully funded the bipartisan PACT Act.
Democrats will always take care of our veterans.
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We’re days away from default.
House Democrats are fighting to save programs like Medicaid and Meals on Wheels.
House Republicans are coddling George Santos and talking about another Hillary Probe.
The two are not the same.
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MAGA Republicans are bragging that they paved the way for the end of Roe v. Wade.
They can keep bragging because it’s exactly why voters will show up at the polls to flip the House majority in 2024.
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If our debt ceiling negotiations showed anything, it’s that House Republicans are willing to hold working Americans hostage and blow up our economy.
We must hold them accountable at the polls.
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Last night, MAGA House Republicans made clear that they’re not serious about reducing the deficit, they’re only interested in padding the bank accounts of their billionaire friends.
House Democrats rejected their tax scam in 2018 and we are going to do it again.
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House Republicans are threatening to default on America.
House Democrats aren’t giving up on America.
We’re investing in jobs, schools, affordable healthcare, and our future.
We’re committed to honoring promises made and to put
#PeopleOverPolitics
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The GOP spending bill would result in 30 million less veteran health care visits.
Saying yes to defaulting on our debt is saying yes to veterans not getting the care they need.
That’s what Republicans are doing.
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Veterans will not forget how House Republicans tried to defund the PACT Act to slash their healthcare.
America’s heroes deserve better.
House Democrats will hold them accountable in Congress, and next year, the American people will vote out every last one of them at the polls.
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This month’s jobs report shows that Biden’s economy has produced over a quarter million new jobs created in April.
Meanwhile, the GOP’s spending bill would cut nearly 7 million jobs.
I won’t let them put our progress at risk.
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House Republicans are more focused on protecting Donald Trump than protecting our children from gun violence.
They’ve abandoned all allegiance to democracy and the American people.
Next year, Democrats will vote out every last one of them.
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MAGA extremists have made clear that they will not stop until they criminalize abortion care, impose a nationwide abortion ban, and ban birth control.
Every last one of them must be voted out of Congress in 2024. I won’t stop fighting till we take back our majority.
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All of my Republican colleagues who voted to cut VA funding last week should read this chart:
I hear House Republicans out on TV saying they would never vote to cut veterans’ benefits.
In case there’s any confusion, I made a little chart that could help them out.
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556 anti-trans bills have been introduced in our country so far this year.
That’s 556 attempts to block trans people from receiving healthcare, education, and their legal & human right to exist.
We can’t wait any longer, it’s time to pass the Equality Act.
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The real liars are the Republicans who promised to protect our veterans and then turned their backs on them by voting to defund the PACT Act!
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After this brutal pandemic, working families deserve a break. That’s why a 32-hour work week is SO important. It will change the way Americans live and work forever. And we have an opportunity to get it done. Like and retweet to spread the word.
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Last week, Republicans voted to ship American jobs overseas and end our manufacturing boom.
I proudly stood with my fellow Democrats to keep American jobs in America.
More voters should know this. We need to spread the word.
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Yes I do! Like and retweet if you agree with
@AOC
and I: we need to make the 4 day work week a reality.
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There have been over a dozen mass shootings since last Friday, and 190 mass shootings in 2023 alone. This cannot and will not be our new normal. I will vote to reinstate the ban on assault weapons.
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I am fighting to ban weapons of war from our streets.
House Republicans are fighting to cut veteran funding by 22%.
That’s the difference between us.
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75% of the House GOP wants to ban free school meals for our kids.
They’d rather let kids starve than miss an opportunity to give even more in tax giveaways to the ultra-rich.
House Democrats will not let them.
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The GOP wants to spend billions of dollars on tax breaks for big corporations while shipping jobs overseas and raising costs on American families.
Let’s call the House Republican plan what it really is: a GOP Tax Scam 2.0.
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House Democrats are protecting abortion rights, fighting climate change, and adding jobs to our economy.
Meanwhile, Republicans are still *checks notes* holding news conferences on gas stoves.
House Republicans are laser focused on the most consequential issues facing the American people
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It’s true! And this November we can elect an even gayer Congress by supporting more LGBTQ+ candidates. 🏳️🌈
Give them a follow:
@SDGeorgette
@GinaOrtizJones
@RitchieTorres
@MondaireJones
@JonHoadley
"This is the gayest Congress ever."
-- Congressman
@MarkTakano
, to the
@DemConvention
LGBTQ Caucus, never failing to disappoint
#DNC2020
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House Republicans have dropped their Tax Scam 2.0.
This bill includes tax giveaways for Big Oil and billionaires while increasing the deficit over $1 trillion.
They claim to be fiscally responsible. They are liars.
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House Democrats will not rest until we codify abortion rights into federal law.
No matter how hard extremist Republicans fight for a nationwide abortion ban, we will always fight harder to protect reproductive freedom.
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While House Democrats are focused on passing an assault weapons ban, protecting abortion rights, and addressing the climate crisis, House Republicans are trying to cut SNAP benefits. They’ve fully abandoned whatever sliver of solidarity they had left with working Americans.
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Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right ingrained in the Constitution, and over the past 2 days, Riversiders have exercised this right to make it known that Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene are not welcomed to promote their hateful rhetoric in our community. 1/
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My name is Mark Takano and I am the ranking member on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee.
Last year, I helped pass the PACT Act, while every Republican voted against it.
This year, I fought back against GOP attempts to cut VA benefits. RT, follow, and help spread the word!
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House Republicans voted to raise the debt ceiling THREE times under Trump with 0 threats.
They did it before. They should do it again.
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Last night, Republicans had a chance to make good on their promise to veterans and they still voted to defund the PACT Act.
I proudly voted against the GOP attack on veterans.
Voters will not forget how the GOP turned their backs on our service members.
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House Democrats took Big Pharma head-on and lowered the cost of insulin to $35 per month for seniors on Medicare.
I won’t stop fighting until the $35 a month insulin cap is extended to every American.
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MAGA Republicans’ spending bill would cut $620 million from the DEA’s program to fight the opioid epidemic and stop fentanyl trafficking.
It’s clear they do not care about ending drug trafficking at the border.
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Seven years after chanting “lock her up,” House Republicans are considering opening up a new probe into Hillary Clinton.
I can tell you that we will fight back against this partisan attempt to divide our country even further.
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House Republicans do not support working parents and families.
If they did, they wouldn’t have voted for a bill that would make 180,000 parents and children lose childcare.
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The GOP canceled all voting last week because Democrats blocked their plan to tank the economy.
Now, they’re blocking votes because they want to repeal pistol brace regulations, aka make guns more lethal.
That’s their agenda: tanking the economy & making guns more lethal.
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It’s
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
.
As a former public school English teacher, I find it particularly offensive that House Republicans voted to cut 60,000 teaching jobs just last week.
We should be honoring teachers, not cutting their indispensable careers short.
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Just days ago, House Republicans were demanding budget cuts to the programs that keep poor working families afloat to lower our debt.
Now, they want to expand the Trump tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.
They were never serious about lowering the deficit.
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House Republicans are embarrassed enough by their debt ceiling bill to lie about it, but not enough to stand up for Americans and say NO to the MAGA agenda.
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House Republicans have the audacity to call themselves ‘pro-life’ while pushing a debt limit bill that would put 7 million Americans out of work, defund law enforcement, and rip food assistance from families.
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Today, the Senate will vote on the Freedom to Vote Act, which will secure American democracy for generations to come. Once the GOP filibusters it, the Senate must do whatever it takes to pass this critical legislation.
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Republicans can say all they want about
@HouseDemocrats
and
@POTUS
but facts are facts:
#Bidenomics
IS working.
The unemployment rate has remained below 4% for 17 months—the longest stretch since the 1960s. The share of working-age Americans with jobs is the highest in over 20 years. Inflation has come down by more than half.
We are seeing stable and steady growth. That’s Bidenomics.
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House Republicans want to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act.
House Democrats are ready to stop them.
We won’t let them roll back progress for millions of working Americans.
Since taking office, we:
—Brought manufacturing back to America
—Invested in the American workforce
—Helped build industries around semiconductor manufacturing
—Invested in electric vehicles and school buses
We are looking at the future of America and investing in her future.
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America is at a turning point.
Whether we uphold women’s rights and freedoms or succumb to a future run by fascists, misogynists, and theocrats is up to us.
House Democrats will fight to flip the majority to save abortion rights—will you fight with us?
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One year ago, Donald Trump incited an angry mob to storm the Capitol in an attempt to overrule a free and fair election.
Today, we remember and reflect, but our democracy remains at risk. We need to hold perpetrators accountable so this never happens again.
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It’s been 1 year since SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade.
I have and will always believe that neither I, nor any other politician, should have the right to make decisions about women’s lives and bodies.
I won't stop fighting until the Women’s Health Protection Act is passed.
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Donald Trump is under arrest and in federal custody. Again.
That’s one of the Republican Party’s candidates for President in 2024.
Let that sink in.
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@culta_klash
Hey! I've proposed a bill on this in Congress. I completely agree with you, a 4 day workweek is more than necessary.
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House Republicans are fighting for:
-cutting 8 million jobs
-slashing border control
-triggering a recession
-Social Security Checks delayed
House Democrats are putting
#PeopleOverPolitics
and saying NO to the MAGA agenda.
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Our country has witnessed a dangerous spike in legislation that puts the lives of LGBTQI+ Americans at risk.
That’s why I’m reintroducing the Equality Act to Congress, because no Republican in Congress has the right to decide what you read, who you are, and who you love.
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House Democrats will not let MAGA Republicans hold our economy hostage, abandon our veterans, and punish our seniors.
We’re voting no on their outrageous Default on America Act.
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The opinions of a few small-minded Republican anti-abortion extremists in Congress shouldn’t determine the future of millions of women.
That’s why I won’t stop fighting until Congress brings the Women��s Health Protection Act to President Biden’s desk.
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The GOP strategy on gun violence went from:
“Thoughts & prayers” to radio silence and ignoring the issue.
It’s not working. It’s time to ban assault weapons, pass universal background checks, and other gun safety reforms now.
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As a member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, I’m proud to not only have blocked the GOP’s budget plan, but to have fully funded the PACT Act.
We can’t lose our momentum. Can you RT to help me reach 10,000 followers so I can fight the GOP's anti-veteran agenda?
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