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- JS
Denmark and Greenland are happy to partner with us on anything the United States is interested in doing in Greenland. That's the route we should be taking. It should be diplomatic.
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- MK
Reminder that it’s been over a month since Trump’s Justice Department was legally obligated to release all of the Epstein files. They’ve still failed to do so, and every day they wait is another day victims don’t get accountability.
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- JR
Trump Admin has overseen historic breach of Americans’ private data. By breaking security guardrails, Trump’s unvetted DOGE coders put personal info of millions in jeopardy. Americans need to know to what extent their personal data was compromised.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/doge-employees-social-security-data.html
- EW
Trump’s plan to run Venezuela could drag Americans into another forever war.
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- BL
Giving Elon Musk and DOGE access to sensitive Social Security data was reckless and wrong. Americans raised the alarm. Now we need answers and accountability. Unacceptable. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
- AK
Yes it’s cold in Minnesota—but we embrace it. John and I were in Hastings with Mayor Fasbender for Hockey Day Minnesota to watch my alma mater, Wayzata High School, take on Rogers. Photo taken with parents right after their son scored a goal!
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- MW
This admin refuses to do anything to lower your health care costs, but found $75 billion for ICE… so agents can break down the doors of American citizens’ homes and drag them, barely clothed, through the snow. That’s not an exaggeration. That happened this weekend in Minnesota.
- AS
The Trump administration’s abuse of sensitive databases for immigration enforcement purposes has been a go-to intimidation tactic to serve their mass detention and deportation agenda. But sharing data on our veterans is a disgraceful abuse even for an administration hellbent on spreading fear.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/adam-schiff-veterans-affairs-data
- RG
Maryland gets it. Your personal data isn’t a weapon to make you pay more. My federal ban on surveillance pricing would make this illegal nationwide. Time to protect every American from being exploited.
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- MH
Public safety means stopping violent crime — not weaponizing ICE against our communities. That’s why I'm proposing a bill that redirects nearly $75 billion from ICE to local law enforcement.
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- SW
Oceans keep setting new heat records (by the zettajoule), raising the cost to us of fossil fuel’s climate crisis.
link:https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09012026/ocean-warming-breaks-record-for-ninth-straight-year/
- AK
A couple weeks ago, I spoke to some members of the Venezuelan community in NJ about the Trump administration’s actions in their home country. Here’s what they had to say.
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- EW
Trump is trying to seize control of the Fed – and it looks like he’s weaponizing the Department of Justice and other agencies to do it. It’s a dangerous abuse of power that will have serious consequences for Americans. @durbin.senate.gov and I are getting to the bottom of it.
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- JH
This is how Trump’s Big Ugly Betrayal Act left our rural communities like Hugo out to dry.
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- AK
The 3,000 ICE and federal agents in Minnesota outnumber all 10 metro police departments combined. Local law enforcement leaders have made it clear that this surge is disrupting public safety, stretching resources, and making their jobs more difficult. ICE is making us less safe.
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- JR
The cuts the Trump Admin was considering to a program that helps fight homelessness in NV would have been devastating & put more people on the streets. I’m glad to have pushed back against these cuts, and I’ll continue fighting to help make sure every Nevadan has access to a roof over their head.
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- MH
Millions of Americans can't afford health care or to keep food on the table, and Trump's moral compass told him to invade a foreign country... using YOUR taxpayer dollars. Why? Because his morality seems to be guided only by greed and corruption.
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- EW
This bill does nothing to lower health care costs. This bill doesn't restrict Trump’s military adventurism in Venezuela and Greenland. This bill doesn't halt ICE’s dangerous abuses of power and prevent ICE’s chaos in every American city. I will vote NO on this budget deal.
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- RB
No wonder DOJ senior prosecutors are jumping ship—as Trump’s malignly motivated team seems intent on impeding local & state law enforcers investigating Renee Good’s killer, not seeking ICE accountability. Recent Dept of Justice subpoenas mock its name.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/subpoena-minnesota-democrats-immigration.html
- CH
A year ago, we stood outside SSA, protesting DOGE's access for just this reason. The Trump Admin denied it. Once again, the truth comes out: they lied. Meanwhile, DOGE's haphazard firings & disruptions have made life harder for millions of Americans who rely on Social Security.
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- MH
Yesterday I heard from small business owners in Nashua about how rising costs – including cost increases driven by President Trump’s reckless tariffs – are harming their businesses and their customers.
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- KG
Trump profits while American families pay more.
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- JS
The Supreme Court issued a disastrous ruling in Citizens United, and 16 years later, it has allowed our elections to become overrun with corporate money and big donors. I remain committed to working to overturn this decision to restore power to the hands of the American people.
- ES
President Trump continues to play Russian roulette with our economy and our alliances. This week, it's threatening tariffs until Denmark relents and gives the U.S. control of Greenland. Retaliatory tariffs will, again, raise costs for middle-class families. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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- PM
I got an update from local leaders & first responders about how King County is rebuilding from last month's devastating flooding. I look forward to supporting requests for federal disaster assistance to make sure our communities get the resources they need to recover.
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- RD
Humility and truth were the first casualties of Donald Trump’s Davos display. Our best allies are fed up with his threats and boasts. Our nation will pay a heavy price for one man’s ego.
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- AS
Trump was never going to stop at Mark Kelly, Jerome Powell, Letitia James, or me. Targeting Minnesota officials is just Trump’s latest abuse of the DOJ, and his most recent attempt to silence and intimidate those who stand up to him. 🧵
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/subpoena-minnesota-democrats-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
- SW
The beloved Ocean Mist in 1991 (all that beach!) vs. today. Climate change is driving up RI sea levels faster and faster. Fossil fuel lying and denying can’t change these facts.
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- AK
ICE’s reasoning for stopping anyone in Minnesota is illegal and unconstitutional. This explains why they took an innocent Hmong American out of his home wearing almost nothing in 12-degree weather, and dropped him off an hour later after admitting they had the wrong person.
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- EM
After one year of Trump, Americans are worse off. His attacks on clean energy & handouts to Big Oil mean: -Electric bills up 13% -Natural gas bills up 60% -165,000 clean energy jobs lost -Renewable power for 13M homes killed -30,000 lives/year at risk from gutted pollution rules
- ES
We have to stop the invasive Asian Carp now, and we cannot do that if this Administration is dragging their feet on the Brandon Road project.
link:https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/20/funding-pause-holding-up-invasive-carp-barrier-to-great-lakes-brandon-road-army-corps-trump-review/88220112007/
- KG
Every New Yorker deserves quality, affordable housing. I'm fighting to secure funding for much-needed infrastructure improvements at Patterson Houses in the Bronx.
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- MH
I warned this would happen. Pete Hegseth’s confirmation meant a compliant Pentagon—and that’s exactly what we continue to see. We need leaders who restrain the President, not amplify his impulses. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/politics/pentagon-troops-minnesota.html
- AK
OMG ROGUE DOGE (I mean it’s just stealing your social security info to overturn elections..all in good fun): “DOGE employee signed agreement to share Social Security data w/the aim of overturning election results in certain states” per DOJ court filing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/20/doge-social-security-data-privacy-act/
- RD
It cost ~$215,000 to run a winning campaign for Congress when I first ran. That’d barely get a campaign off the ground today. Dark money in politics is a crisis—and Citizens United enabled it.
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- ES
President Trump has talked a big game about America's foreign policy failures. But, in just one year, he's become a foreign policy President: dropping bombs on seven countries and two oceans, and promising to use U.S. tax dollars to make *other* countries rich. youtube.com/shorts/TAzDM...
link:https://youtube.com/shorts/TAzDMZPayrY?si=aZms7NmUxGzeYuCB
- ES
I don’t want to just fiddle around the margins. We need a national emergency on housing, and my bill does just that.
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- RG
One year into the Senate, I heard the same thing over and over: it has been a hard year for our country and our community. But everywhere I go, I still see good people who love their families, love this country, and want to do the right thing. That goodness is worth fighting for.
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- CH
I've said repeatedly that I will not support one dime of funding for Trump's lawless ICE operations. The funding bill released today fails to sufficiently rein them in or ensure people's rights are protected. I'm voting NO.
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- PM
Last year, Trump ripped away $500 MILLION from Howard Hanson Dam—critical for flood control, our water supply, & habitat restoration. Pure corruption. Well, I just passed the funding to get construction back on track. Don't mess with our water. Don't mess with our fish.
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- AK
Actions have consequences. Trump cares more about picking fights with our friends and allies than he does our own economic security. The American people want a president who cares about strengthening our economy, not throwing it into complete chaos.
link:https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/akademikerpension-us-treasury-greenland-trump.html
- AK
16 years after the Citizens United decision, we are living with its consequences: a corrupt administration beholden to America’s wealthiest donors, not its people.
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- JH
It’s treasures like these that Trump and his BLM nominee Steve Pearce, a fierce advocate for selling off our public lands, want to take away from us. I’m a NO on Steve Pearce. Colorado’s public lands are NEVER for sale.
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- PM
Everything is getting more expensive for working people, but Trump is abusing his power to make himself at least $1.4 billion richer. The most corrupt President in American history. A government of, by, and for the crooks.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/20/opinion/editorials/trump-wealth-crypto-graft.html
- MB
Trump has spent his first year back in office making life more expensive for Coloradans. He has hiked health insurance costs, driven up energy prices, and cut taxes for the wealthiest—all while his tariffs add thousands in annual costs for working families.
- TB
Donald Trump promised to lower costs for Americans on Day 1. A year later, families can tell you that is just not happening.
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- SW
My response to the claims in Senator Cruz’s recent letter:
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- AS
These are just some of the heartbreaking stories @padilla.senate.gov and I heard today at the California City Detention Center. 🧵
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- CH
I just got off the phone with General Mazloum, head of the SDF. The U.S. must demand the Syrian govt immediately comply with the ceasefire. The SDF has been our chief partner in the fight against ISIS & we must ensure they're treated fairly in the ongoing integration process. Full statement:
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- RB
This is a U.S. citizen. No criminal record. No search warrant. No excuse. Unabashed cruelty & indiscriminate violence is ICE’s point & purpose.
link:https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ice-elderly-hmong-american-citizen-arrested-st-paul/