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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 57m

I was on the ground today in Broadview with Senator Durbin to conduct Congressional oversight on ICE’s processing facility.  As elected officials, we have a duty to ensure transparency within federal facilities. What is ICE hiding? Kristi Noem, what are you hiding?

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 1h

These firings are illegal—

And yet another example of Trump finding new ways to inflict harm on the American people and the programs they rely on.

He's playing with Americans' livelihoods to try and help Republicans pass a budget that would kick you off your health care.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h

BREAKING: White House budget office says "substantial" firings of federal workers have started as the Trump administration exerts shutdown leverage.

Budget office says 'substantial' firings of federal workers have started in government shutdown

The White House budget office says that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

bit.ly

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 1d

Trump: "We're not cutting Medicaid."
Also Trump: Signs the largest Medicaid cut in history into law.

There’s no Democratic “wish list.” We just want Trump to keep his promise: repeal the cuts and lower costs.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 1d

UPDATE: While it shouldn't have taken this long for the Senate to look into Trump’s egregious abuse of our military, I have secured a hearing to investigate his deployments of troops into our cities—

And I’ll be asking tough questions of the Trump Administration when it happens.

Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 1d

Trump is forcing the military to our cities, intimidating Americans and distracting troops from their core missions.

It's unconstitutional—we can't act like it's business as usual.

I'm blocking the NDAA until we secure a hearing to investigate this gross abuse of our military.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 1d

Trump is forcing the military to our cities, intimidating Americans and distracting troops from their core missions.

It's unconstitutional—we can't act like it's business as usual.

I'm blocking the NDAA until we secure a hearing to investigate this gross abuse of our military.

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Reposted by Tammy Duckworth

Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 2d

Let Me Be Blunt: this isn’t business as usual.

Republicans shut down the government and are refusing to negotiate. They’re even holding committee hearings on everything BUT their shutdown.

This week, I used my time in those hearings to remind them what’s really at stake.

Let Me Be Blunt: This Isn’t Business As Usual #governmentshutdown

YouTube video by Senator LBR (Lisa Blunt Rochester)

youtube.com

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 2d

@durbin.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 2d

Trump is moving us closer to authoritarianism with each deployment of troops into states.

From Illinois to Oregon to California—

None of our states asked for this, nor need this.

I and every U.S. Senator from these states are demanding Trump to end these deployments ASAP.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 2d

I cherished every day I got to call myself a Soldier—but ordering troops to intimidate the very Americans they sacrifice to protect doesn’t make us safer.

Trump is wasting millions to terrorize citizens exercising their First Amendment rights. It's wrong.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-tammy-duckworth-trumps-domestic-troop-deployments-betray-milita…

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 2d

In addition to kicking 250,000+ Veterans off their health coverage, don't forget:

Trump fired more Veterans than any other President and is hellbent on firing thousands of VA workers as well.

He doesn't care about Veterans or middle-class families.

He only cares about himself.

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen @shaheen.senate.gov · 3d

If my Republican colleagues fail to work with us, 267,000 veterans will lose their health care, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.

These are Americans who put their lives on the line for our nation, who will be priced out of health care if Congress doesn’t act.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 2d

This is what dictators and authoritarians do, not Presidents of the United States of America.

Trump Calls for Jailing of Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor

The president in a social-media post says Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker have failed to protect ICE.

www.wsj.com

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 2d

Trump: "I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One."
Also Trump: Refuses to stop health insurance premiums from bankrupting the middle class

Democrats just want Trump to keep his promises.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 3d

Trump keeps saying he needs to send federal agents in to protect Chicago because the Police aren't doing the job.

You know what makes it hard for our city's brave police officers to do their jobs?

Trump's agents throwing tear gas at them.

ICE accidentally tear gases Chicago police during clash with protesters

Several officers could be seen rubbing their eyes, squinting, and struggling to remain standing on October 4.

www.newsweek.com

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 3d

We have the Insurrection Act for a reason—

But it's not so a President with 34 felonies can ignore court orders and punish cities he doesn't like with military intimidation.

Especially not when the courts are telling him his claims of insurrection are "untethered to the facts."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump "We have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd to that ... if courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that."

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 4d

We have not called for this. We do not need this.

Donald Trump is pitting sovereign states against one another in effort to consolidate his own power at the expense of our constitutional rights—

An egregious abuse of power.

He is pushing us closer to authoritarianism.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 5d

Trump is federalizing the National Guard in Illinois against our will—

An affront to American values and an extreme abuse of our military.

He’s terrorizing citizens in attempt to expand his power and punish opponents.

That’s just not who we are.

It’s authoritarian.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 7d

An American President is intentionally hurting Americans to score cheap political points.

This is not normal.

Russ Vought on X: $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects—specifically the Red Line Extension and the Red and Purple Modernization Project—have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting. More info to come soon from @USDOT.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 8d

With ACA tax credits, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 pays ~$7,000 for their annual premium.

Without ACA tax credits, the same couple could be forced to pay nearly $30,000.

I know Republicans only speak "billionaire"—but middle-class families can't afford this.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 8d

You're right, Donald. We’re not stupid.

When you broke your promise to protect Medicaid by enacting a $1 trillion cut, you sold out hospitals and health coverage for millions.

Democrats just want you to keep your promise.

Repeal the cuts.

Trump Truth social post: “I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of Project 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrats Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 8d

Using American cities as "training grounds for our military" isn’t just intrinsically un-American, it's unconstitutional.
 More like a tin-pot dictator than a President every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Trump to top military officials: "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor."

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 9d

Even Donald Trump once said, "a shutdown falls on the President’s lack of leadership."

Well, choosing to shut down rather than save health care is one of the biggest failures in leadership imaginable.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 9d

Fact: Undocumented immigrants are not even eligible to purchase the ACA coverage we’re trying to protect.

Republicans voted to hike costs and take health care away from American citizens.

Including their own constituents.

Read that again. Over and over.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10d

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump:

SD - Up 235% LA - Up 150% WV - Up 387% WY - Up 382% TN - Up 320% MS - Up 314% AK - Up 346%

Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10d

Trump continues threatening our state with his unwarranted, unwanted and unjust military deployments.

This dangerous pattern of politicizing our military and forcing our troops to intimidate their fellow Americans in their communities is as un-American as it gets.

Full stop.

Trump administration asks for 100 'military troops' to deploy in Illinois to protect ICE, Pritzker says

Gov. JB Pritzker said the Illinois National Guard obtained a memo that the Department of Homeland Security sent to the Defense Department, which sought to request 100 military personnel for Illinois.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10d

If this deeply degrading, wasteful and dangerous stunt proved anything, it’s that the best thing Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace.

Immediately.

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