Senator Patty Murray
@murray
U.S. Senator, Washington state | Senate Appropriations Vice Chair | Working every day to help people and solve problems
Trump's nominee to lead national intelligence REFUSED to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election—MULTIPLE TIMES! It's pathetic watching these formerly serious people debase and humiliate themselves publicly because Trump doesn’t want anyone to admit he LOST the 2020 election.
Trump is giving a primetime national address tonight to talk about election fraud that doesn't exist. This is unprecedented & unhinged, so we've got to respond seriously. And remember that We The People decide the future of this democracy with our VOICE and our VOTE!
🚨🚨PSA🚨🚨 Todd Blanche, Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Justice, confirms he's an anti-abortion extremist by committing to carry out Republicans' fever dream of a nationwide ban on medication abortion. I'll be voting NO. Spread the word. Speak out. Fight back.
The parasite causing explosive diarrhea makes clear that functional public health infrastructure matters. But Trump's latest CDC nominee didn't KNOW Trump made monitoring this parasite optional and STILL wouldn't give me a firm commitment she'd make it mandatory again. Absurd.
We will not let Todd Blanche dismiss or ignore Epstein survivors. In May, he told us he would meet with survivors whose private info was released by the Justice Department. That meeting still isn't scheduled. @vanhollen.senate.gov and I are demanding answers.
BREAKING: the House just passed my bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent! Leader Thune should bring this bill to a vote in the Senate so we can finally get this done. More sunshine. Less depression. Let's finally lock the clock!
Another man was killed by ICE. Just days since the last fatal shooting by this agency. I pushed constantly to give Republicans every opportunity to enact common-sense reforms on ICE—the same basic standards our local police follow. Republicans BLOCKED every single reform.
Trump wants to turn the federal budget into one big slush fund to reward his allies and punish everyone else. A cancer research grant in a state where someone personally offended Trump? Terminated. This would be devastating for communities & is downright unacceptable.
Trump's so-called “reorganization” of the Forest Service is an attack on America’s public lands. I spoke with folks in Everett about what these cuts would mean for WA state's wildfire preparedness & prevention.
We know that ICE lies—because they lie constantly. I am DEMANDING that ICE release all of the footage related to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's killing. There needs to be an independent investigation immediately.
Trump could not care less about lowering costs for working families. Don't just take my word for it — hear it right from the horse's mouth.
Millions of Americans have lost health care coverage and food assistance while Trump profits off the American Presidency. The most corrupt President in American history enabled by a cowardly Republican Congress. It's time for change.
Trump has been coming after child care since Day 1. I've been fighting back every step along the way–because in the richest country in the world, every family in America should be able to afford quality child care.
$3,600. That's how much EXTRA the average family in Washington state had to pay since Trump took office because of his reckless and stupid policies.
As we celebrate America 250—and there’s a LOT to celebrate—remember: it IS patriotic to stand up for our freedoms and our values. You better believe I’m proud to be an American. Here’s to another 250 years! 🎉🇺🇸
“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.” — Thurgood Marshall
"Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance." - President Theodore Roosevelt
When Trump said "no one gives a **** about housing," he meant that *HE* didn't. Our billionaire ex-slumlord of a President wants to slash billions for housing. I won't let him and I'm throwing his budget in the trash.
250 years of the land of opportunity. 🇺🇸 Land of the free, home of the brave. Out of many, one. Diversity is a strength. Proud to be an American.
This might be the best program you've never heard of. Families that qualify for free or reduced lunch at school can get EBT benefits to help their kids get meals throughout the summer. WATCH⬇️
Republicans want women to be silent about the suffering happening under GOP abortion bans. I will never stop uplifting the voices of women. We have to make sure their stories are impossible to ignore.
The biggest form of theft in America? Corporate wage theft. Workers are robbed of an estimated $50 BILLION EVERY YEAR! And Trump's answer has been to give the green light for employers to steal from workers—so I've got a bill to make sure workers get the pay they've earned.
Does Donald Trump hate nurses? Sure feels like it since he made sure nursing is no longer categorized as a “professional degree.” That makes it so nurses have LESS access to federal student aid. I'm voting to OVERTURN this asinine policy.
Today marks four years since Republicans ripped away the national right to abortion. Every single Republican in the Senate helped enable this new and horrifying reality. I'm not going to let Americans forget.
Kaitlyn’s heartbreaking story is not the exception; it’s the reality Republican abortion bans have created. Women deserve better.
I will not let Republicans off the hook for the pain they have caused and the chaos they have unleashed by overturning Roe v. Wade. You voted to confirm Trump’s SCOTUS nominees? You own this chaos and suffering.
Abortion bans kill women. More from @alexismjpp.bsky.social at today’s forum to hold Republicans accountable for the chaos and pain they have unleashed on American women.
Texas’s abortion ban forced Samantha to carry a very wanted, but non-viable pregnancy to term–denying her the health care she needed and putting her life in danger. This is the reality Republicans created.
From pushing for dangerous fetal personhood bills to denying lifesaving care to pregnant women, anti-abortion Republicans show every single day that overturning Roe was never going to be enough.
Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here: Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track. Spread the word. Stand up for science.