#Republican U.S. Senator #ChuckGrassley introduced a bill on Thurs that would require congressional approval for new #tariffs, the day after #Trump unveiled sweeping new #taxes on a vast array of imported goods.
Only problem, Trump doesn’t care if something needs the approval of #Congress.
#Senate #economy #recession #Trumpcession #inflation #law #USpol #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-republican-pushes-congressional-approval-presidents-tariffs-2025-04-03/
@trumpwatch.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gySenate Republicans are betting on a budget plan to push Trump’s agenda, but with so many roadblocks ahead,it’s clear they’re more focused on party loyalty than the nation’s needs. #MAGA GOP move forward with their budget plan to promote Trump's agenda #TrumpAgenda #Senate www.npr.org/2025/04/02/g...
Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Facebook policy director behind a best-selling memoir about her time at the company, will testify at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing next week. Via @Engadget. #Facebook #Meta #Senate #China #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/QLQb6g
S1246
A bill to establish the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a cabinet-level independent agency, and for other purposes.
Introduced in Senate
The #Senate approved a measure to block some of the #tariffs #Trump has imposed on #Canada, w/a handful of #Republicans joining #Democrats to…halt levies set to take effect this week.
The measure is all but certain to stall in the #House, where #GOP leaders moved preemptively to shut down any attempt to end Trump’s tariffs. But Senate passage on a vote of 51 to 48—hours after Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs on >100 trading partners…, sent a signal of #bipartisan opposition to Trump’s #TradeWar.
#Senate Votes to Rescind Some #Trump #Tariffs, With #GOP Support
A measure to cancel some tariffs on #Canada is all but certain to stall in the #House. But with a handful of #Republicans in favor, the vote sent a signal of opposition to the levies.
#USpol #economy #inflation #recession #Trumpcession #allies #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/politics/senate-democrats-canada-tariffs-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=DFF6D016-B52C-437A-ACB8-D08544D2E59E
I love it!
This morning I donated $25.05 to Cory Booker in honor of the 25 hours and five minutes he eloquently spoke!
It was inspiring to watch Senator Booker doing something impactful to rally support against trump’s rapacious overreach & call out the Republicans’ passivity.
#corybooker #filibuster #senate #goodtrouble
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Cory Booker spoke on the Senate Floor for over 24 hours, nonstop. -- Now what?
Seriously, I am 44 years old, and I have seen many political leaders perform many stunts, said many good words, only to roll over, or even betray the things you claimed to fight for.
Time will be the true test of all this. Time and actions, or the lack there of.
#UnitedStates #Usa #America #Senate #Congress
Amazingly Sen #CoryBooker is still awake & will be interviewed on The #RachelMaddow Show which starts at 9PM ET.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our #history! I don't a #whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched #truth about #America, because that speaks to our greatness" - Sen Cory Booker
#TRMS
#resist #Trump #money #power #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
#democracy #law #USpol #Senate #Constitution #CivilRights #MoralMoment #GoodTrouble
After 25 hours & 5 minutes, Senator #CoryBooker has yielded the floor. Here are the last ~3½ mins.
Today's top ten tag trends:
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8: #TuneTuesday
7: #senate
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: #CoryBooker #filibuster now the longest in history, beating *that guy* who opposed the #civilrights Act in 1957. Booker talking more than 24h on the #Senate floor, not just filling space but doing so eloquently. I thought it was interesting he had just mentioned Congressman John Lewis forgiving the unforgivable (a white man who'd viciously assaulted him) when #ChuckShumer took the floor to try and steal some of Booker's shine by being the one announcing the record. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE
Cory Booker breaking the record for longest filibuster, surpassing Strom Thurmond's (shameful) record, is a powerful symbol today. Thank you, Senator Booker! 
And he has done it. Senator #CoryBooker has broken Strom Thurmond’s 1957 anti-civil rights filibuster.
“I am not doing this because of him, I am doing this in spite of him.”
“I’m not quite ready to wrap this up yet.”
#resist #Trump #money #power #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
#democracy #USpol #Senate #Constitution #rights
He did it. Longest recorded speech in Senate history. And for the right reasons. Thank you, Cory Booker. Democrats, more of this sort of fire, please. #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #US #USpol #Senate #CoryBooker
getting very close to the longest actual filibuster ever
https://www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMxAwtE
#CoryBooker #Senate #filibuster #USPolitics
30 minutes away from breaking the record. Senator #CoryBooker is still speaking about the importance of the US #Constitution & standing up for the #rights of all #people, especially those who are being targeted by a savage few with the #money & #power to do so.
@benroyce@mastodon.socialps:
#CoryBooker has about an hour left, and if he passes the threshold he will beat the record for a #filibuster in the #Senate
and who set the current record?
#StromTurmond the #racist ghoul trying to stop the #CivilRightsAct of 1957
there's a certain poetic justice to it all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond_filibuster_of_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957
watch Cory making history now, he's pausing, reaching to recall words, but he's still lucid and on point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE
much respect Cory
