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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, the Ocean State. https://linktr.ee/senwhitehouse
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 16h
A MAGA AG dumping false oppo in an oversight hearing shows just how low they go. We usually expect Attorneys General to say true things. Seems like a reasonable expectation.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 17h
AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 16h
Weirder still, the oppo research is false. I checked. This person has never contributed to me. Like I wouldn’t check? So false — and sloppy.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 16h
For starters, weird that an Attorney General prepares for a hearing with opposition research to attack committee members. That is a first, for me at least. Somebody prepped all that — interesting work out of Department of Justice.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 16h
Today in Judiciary, the MAGA Attorney General falsely accused me of taking money, “not only once but twice,” from “one of Epstein’s closest confidantes.”

She brought it up twice, in response to different questions, so no accident.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 17h
AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19h
I’m old enough to remember when Pam Bondi announced that she was going to release the Epstein files.

Because it was just a few months ago.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19h
So much hidden by Trump’s MAGA DOJ.

But I’m persistent and we will get these answers eventually. As I say, it’s equal parts gangster and Gong Show over there.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19h
Why won’t MAGA Bondi answer about supposed photos in Epstein safe of Trump with half-naked young women?

(No wonder House has fled rather than face vote on Epstein files.)
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19h
Why won’t MAGA Bondi say whether DOJ ever “sealed” Patel’s grand jury testimony, or ever released it “publicly,” as Patel testified? (He said both, under oath.)
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19h
Why won’t MAGA Bondi say whether or not OPR investigated Emil Bove, or what the outcome was? That process usually ends in a public determination “summary.”
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19h
And if he did take it, did he report it in his taxes that year? Did MAGA DOJ even look at that before dismissing the case against cash-in-a-bag Homan?
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19h
Why won’t MAGA Bondi say whether or not Tom Homan returned the $50k the FBI gave him, cash in a bag?

Simple fact question.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 20h
Pam Bondi is incapable of answering simple questions.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23h
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked Pam Bondi about DOJ's decision to drop the investigation into Tom Homan.

MSNBC first reported that Homan was recorded in Sept. 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI sting.

Bondi refused to answer, then attacked Whitehouse.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 23h
This from the guy whose Citizens United decision did more to degrade democracy than any other. Please.
Retired US supreme court justice fears ‘democracy is not guaranteed to survive’
Anthony Kennedy told NPR ‘partisanship is becoming ... more prevalent and more bitter’ in the high court’s opinions
www.theguardian.com
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d
Political cartoon titled, "Crocodile Tears." A crocodile in a Trump Administration bib opens its mouth to eat a turtle labeled "federal workers." The crocodile says “It’s just so sad! While negotiating the government shutdown, those nasty Democrats refused to let me eat them for breakfast, so, now, I must eat you for lunch!”
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d
The New Republic chimes in on climate danger to insurance markets, mortgage availability, and property values.
How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance
A secret report shows that Florida underwriters were banking massive profits while stiffing customers. Welcome to insurance in the era of climate collapse.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d
Good overview of “CBAM” — likely our last lifeboat on climate before irrecoverable failure.
What is a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism? | Brookings
This post explains CBAMs (fees levied on imported goods based on the greenhouse gases emitted during their production) and the debate over implementation.
www.brookings.edu
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d
For the good of the country, Republican leaders need to start engaging in basic bipartisanship to end the Republican-created health care cost crisis and the widespread misery of this Trump shutdown.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d
Working around the clock?

You just gave the Republican House Conference yet another week off during a government shutdown.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Mike Johnson: "We said, 'don't sit on your couch and play video games'- by the way, also not a talking point. There was an AEI study, I think one of the organizations that polled this, and most of these young men who are not working are sitting around literally playing video games. Get back to work"
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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 2d
There it is.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 2d
The last three government shutdowns have happened while Donald Trump was President.

This shutdown, like all recent shutdowns, is a REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN.

Enough with the chaos. Time for Republican leadership to work with Democrats to reopen government and save your health care.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 2d
They took down the Klan.
FBI cuts ties with Southern Poverty Law Center after MAGA push
The SPLC is the second civil rights group to lose its affiliation with the agency this week.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 2d
Appropriate guarantees could reduce it further. Plus, Russia would have to defend in court its criminal behavior.
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