Compared to the rest of the world, the United States stands alone with the threat we face from gun violence. It’s time to pass common sense safety measures–that over 80% of Americans agree on–to make our streets safer.
Shutdowns are painful for millions of American workers, health insurance premiums are set to more than double for millions more, nothing about this is fun.
Millions of Americans losing health care is catastrophic for them and endangers our entire system, undermining our hospitals and clinics as there are less people helping to balance payments and more people entering our emergency rooms.
Working Americans in every state are going to see huge price increases in health insurance premiums unless we act. Democrats are fighting every single day to bring them down.
You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people.
Donald Trump has confessed his contempt and hatred for Americans. And his suggestion that our military be turned against those people he hates, and views as his enemy, is something we all should speak out against.
Small businesses, farmers, working Americans, all of them are waiting on us to act. My colleague Lisa Blunt Rochester put it plainly: Republicans and Trump need to take their job seriously and work with us to reopen the government.
