#senate republicans

[saywhat-politics]

Last night, nearly every Senate Republican voted against reining in Trump and his reckless war with Iran.

[project2028]

Planned Parenthood will be defunded for all Medicaid recipients for at least one year due to a provision added to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. All because of Senate Republicans and House Republicans.

The bill prohibits Medicaid from reimbursing any clinic that provides abortions—even if those services are privately funded—for a full year

Planned Parenthood clinics also provide assistance for STI screenings, cancer and wellness check which will also not be reimbursable under Medicaid.

This will cause many Planned Parenthood clinics to close due to lack of funding. Planned Parenthood also provides lower cost health and cancer screenings compared to traditional doctors offices and hospitals.

Low income Americans rely on Planned Parenthood services not just for abortion.. but for health screenings as well.

Every Republican Congressperson voted for this provision. Every Democrat Congressperson voted against it.

[dicapiito]

[onlytiktoks]

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Here are their phone numbers

It's important to call these 3 because they seem to be the ones more open to voting against the one big beautiful bill.

[aunti-christ-ine]

Aww, as Mitch McConnell so elegantly put it, they'll get over it!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

May 21, 2026

Heather Cox Richardson

May 22, 2026

Congress left for the holiday weekend a day early today after a number of Republican members of Congress appear to have mutinied against President Donald J. Trump and his loyalists.

Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund and his agreement with acting attorney general Todd Blanche that the government would not prosecute him or any of his associates for crimes related to tax laws apparently were a bridge too far for a number of Republicans, especially as his job approval rating has fallen to a grim 34%.

Republican senators met for nearly two hours today with acting attorney general Todd Blanche in a meeting that Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News reported was “incredibly hostile.”

Republicans were angry they had no advance warning about the plan, questioned the legal basis for the fund, were unhappy with Blanche’s descriptions of how payments would work, and said they wanted no part of it. As former Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) put it: “So the nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong—Take your pick.”

As many as 25 Republican senators spoke out against the slush fund and pitched ideas about how to draw some limits around it. Scott MacFarlane of Meidas News reported that senators want to know “what is Trump trying to mask by offering up this controversial fund? I mean, the optics of this are terrible. This looks bad, so is it a diversion technique? Is it some way of masking a different issue altogether?”

Dan Alexander of Forbes reported today that the tax immunity Todd Blanche is extending to Trump could save him more than $600 million on the estimated $1.4 billion he made in 2025 from crypto and licensing ventures and on the $100 million hanging over him from a previous tax bill.

Michael Gold and Carl Hulse of the New York Times reported that Republican frustration with the White House has been exacerbated by anger that Trump has intervened in Republican primaries to sink Republican incumbents he thinks have been insufficiently loyal to him.

One Republican senator texted Desiderio to say: “Our majority is melting down before our eyes.”

In the end, Republicans were so angry about the slush fund and immunity agreement that Senate leadership decided not to try to pass $72 billion of funding for immigration agencies, left out of an earlier funding package, out of fear Democrats would force Republicans to vote on the slush fund.

Even before they decided to avoid the vote, Republicans had dropped from the measure the $1 billion Trump wants for security for his ballroom.

House Republicans had their own meltdown. House Republican leaders pulled a vote to stop Trump’s war on Iran based on the War Powers Act, recognizing that they did not have the votes to defeat it. Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), who voted with Democrats to pass such a measure last week, told Megan Mineiro, Robert Jimison, and Michael Gold of the New York Times that the next time the measure comes to a vote, it will pass.

As members head home to observe Memorial Day, the solemn remembrance of those Americans who gave their lives to defend the nation, they will likely hear an earful from their constituents about the $1.7 billion slush fund, the promise of immunity over Trump’s tax crimes, the $1 billion Trump is demanding for his ballroom, Trump’s unpopular war on Iran, and now the administration’s increasing threats against Cuba and Greenland, Trump’s unpopular war on Iran, and now the administration’s increasing threats against Cuba and Greenland, and about dramatically increasing prices.

On Tuesday, four Republicans joined Democrats to advance a resolution against the Iran war in the Senate. “Vote by vote, Democrats are breaking through Republicans’ wall of silence on Trump’s illegal war,” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said. “Today proved our pressure is working: Republicans are starting to crack, and momentum is building to check him. We are not letting up.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[tomorrowusa]

50 Senate Republicans Kill Measure to Ban Trump’s Slush Fund

Only three Republicans voted with Democrats to codify language banning the slush fund.

50 GOP senators voted for Trump's slush fund for terrorists. Despite a court ruling against it, most Senate Republicans want to keep welfare for J-6 insurrectionists alive.

Senate Republicans killed a Democratic attempt to end President Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” Thursday. The Senate voted 50–49 against sending the spending bill back to the Judiciary Committee in order to attach language ending the fund. Susan Collins of Maine, Jon Husted of Ohio, and Dan Sullivan of Alaska were the only three Republicans to vote with Democrats for codifying the ban. The Trump administration has given mixed signals as to the fate of the $1.776 billion fund after a federal court temporarily struck it down last week. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told a congressional committee Tuesday that the fund was dead, but Trump said otherwise in his interview with the New York Post podcast Pod Force One published on Wednesday.

Republicans used to proclaim that they were the "party of law and order". But it's harder to take them seriously with a vandal and convicted sex criminal as their leader.

Speaking of vandalism, a Trump Justice Department attorney claimed that the Orange One had the authority to demolish the Statue of Liberty.

Takeaways from the appeals court hearing on the White House ballroom project

President Donald Trump’s push to construct a massive ballroom at the White House without congressional approval was sharply questioned by a federal appeals court on Friday during a high-stakes hearing in a case testing the president’s power. The two-hour-long hearing before a three-judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals was the latest flashpoint in a protracted legal fight over the project. [ ... ] As a Justice Department attorney urged the appeals court to reverse (US District Judge Richard) Leon’s ruling and made clear that even if the administration loses during this round of wrangling and again before the Supreme Court, the DOJ attorney didn’t think any court would have the power to order Trump to tear down the ballroom. “I’m asking you a straightforward question: That court, this court, the Supreme Court – no court could stop the building of this?” Judge Patricia Millett, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, asked DOJ lawyer Yaakov Roth, who quickly responded, “Yes.” [ ... ] The government’s position, Millett said, was “move fast and break things and then nobody has standing.” She later raised a hypothetical in which Trump decided to quickly bulldoze the Statue of Liberty. “The people whose ancestors – that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast – nothing can be done (by them to challenge it)?” the judge asked. “I think that’s right, yes,” Roth said.

Basically the stance of the Trump Justice Department, currently run by Trump's personal attorney Todd Blanche, is that Trump can do whatever he feels like. That's as un-American as bulldozing the Statue of Liberty.

[liberalsarecool]

Republicans want open borders. Their own rhetoric, not mine. Just like they did in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 when Trump was in office. It's all performance.

You want to never solve issues? Vote for the asinine fools in the Republican Party.

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