Senator Cory Booker may have etched his name into the record books with the longest floor speech in Senate history — but it was former Senator Kyrsten Sinema who had the last laugh.
Sinema, who left the Democratic Party in 2022 while representing Arizona in the upper chamber, long disagreed with Democrats on the virtue of the filibuster. She argued that Democrats should not end the filibuster, because it would open the door for them to ram their agenda through, repeatedly pointing out to her colleagues that the time might come when they were not in power and needed it.
Meanwhile, Democrats — including Booker — insist that it was a &#8220;relic&#8221; of the Jim Crow era. In 2022, Booker said the filibuster &#8220;has been abused to stop reforms supported by the vast majority of Americans.&#8221;
But now, Booker and the Democrats are changing their tune, celebrating Booker for unseating the late segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond with the &#8220;LONGEST FILIBUSTER IN SENATE HISTORY!&#8221;
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LONGEST FILIBUSTER IN U.S. SENATE HISTORY! 🔥 <a href="https://twitter.com/CoryBooker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoryBooker</a> <a href="https://t.co/6HnUcdKhjc">pic.twitter.com/6HnUcdKhjc</a>
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Technically, Booker didn&#8217;t actually filibuster. There was no legislation under consideration for him to oppose, so, he was just giving a floor speech — a record-breaking floor speech, sure, but not a filibuster. Still, that hasn&#8217;t stopped Democrats from celebrating Booker&#8217;s &#8220;filibuster,&#8221; a far cry from their condemnations of the tool.
Sinema jabbed at her former party, saying, &#8220;Maybe it isn’t an old Jim Crow relic, after all.&#8221;
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Maybe it isn’t an old Jim Crow relic, after all. <a href="https://t.co/ZHsgRkMd9Q">https://t.co/ZHsgRkMd9Q</a>
&mdash; Kyrsten Sinema (@kyrstensinema) <a href="https://twitter.com/kyrstensinema/status/1907245863489110159?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Steve Guest weighed in afterward, sharing a few of Booker&#8217;s previous comments regarding the filibuster.
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Booker’s receipts: <a href="https://t.co/ShQKamAFqo">pic.twitter.com/ShQKamAFqo</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1907248236017963264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The filibuster has been abused to stop reforms supported by the vast majority of Americans — from background checks to protecting the right to vote,&#8221; Booker said in 2022. &#8220;We must stop this abuse of power.&#8221;
&#8220;We have changed the filibuster before. We must change it again to preserve the right to vote in America,&#8221; he said a week later.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kyrsten-sinema-mocks-democrats-for-change-of-heart-on-filibuster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sinema</a> had a field day weeks earlier as many in her party who had called for the filibuster to be abolished suddenly found it invaluable, now that they were the minority party.
&#8220;Just surprised to see support for the &#8216;Jim Crow filibuster&#8217; here,&#8221; she said, mocking Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who was among those who had previously called for the filibuster to be abolished.
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Just surprised to see support for the “Jim Crow filibuster” here <a href="https://t.co/zohOh0E5st">https://t.co/zohOh0E5st</a> <a href="https://t.co/AWQKGHN9CG">pic.twitter.com/AWQKGHN9CG</a>
&mdash; Kyrsten Sinema (@kyrstensinema) <a href="https://twitter.com/kyrstensinema/status/1900851608394887477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Kyrsten Sinema At State Of The Union Address

Cory Booker May Have Talked The Longest, But Kyrsten Sinema Had The Last Laugh

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MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend abruptly announced her departure from the Democratic Party over the weekend, shocking her cohosts as she declared that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — and the handful of other Senate Democrats who had voted with him to pass the Republican-led continuing resolution — &#8220;blew it.&#8221;
Townsend worked for a number of prominent Democrats and leftists prior to her stint on MSNBC, serving as press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and then as a senior adviser first to former President Joe Biden and then to former Vice President Kamala Harris — but she said that Schumer&#8217;s move to avert a government shutdown was enough to finally drive her out.
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&#8220;There’s actually little that the Senate minority leader can say, and the 10 Democrats that voted with the Republicans can say, to appease somebody like me,&#8221; she said, complaining that Schumer and the others had &#8220;folded like a paper napkin&#8221; when push came to shove.
&#8220;I’m about to change my registration to independent, first and foremost,&#8221; Townsend continued, adding, &#8220;I’m pissed.&#8221;
She did reserve some praise for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and House Democrats, who voted against the CR with only one exception — Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME). &#8220;Shout out to High King Jeffries, though, because the congressional Democrats stayed together,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;In 2024, Democrats ran on warnings that Trump was going to destroy democracy, and now that he and his team are very much in the process of doing just that, these same politicians are questioning whether or not to stand up to him and his party at one of the first opportunities they have to meaningfully do so,&#8221; Townsend said. &#8220;The only opportunity, I would add, there’s not another option for Senate or Democratic or Senate Democrats or House Democrats to effectively push back. This was it! They blew it!&#8221;
Townsend warned that Schumer had likely awakened something within the party, adding, &#8220;The Democratic Tea Party was born the same day that Chuck Schumer took to that podium to read that very well-crafted statement that told us he folded like a paper napkin.&#8221;

Black Girls Rock! 2018 – Red Carpet

MSNBC Host Rage-Quits Democratic Party On Air, Blames Chuck Schumer For Caving

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If you thought Democrats couldn&#8217;t possibly get any dumber, think again.
Somehow they have managed to achieve this signal feat. When it comes to the economy, President Trump is currently having some trouble, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down significantly since he took office.
Plus, there&#8217;s a lot of concern about the possibility of a recession in the near future in the United States, despite some pretty strong economic fundamentals. Even in the polling data, President Trump is moving the wrong way in regard to the economy.
If the economy picks up or continues to truck along, it does not mean President Trump can’t heal all of that. It just means that, because of all the volatility that has been injected into the economy and all the talk about tariffs, the news about the economy is not favorable to the president right now.
Thus, there’s a clear and obvious opening for Democrats.
And yet… 
Democrats are not only not going to take advantage of the opening, but they are also, figuratively speaking, going to shoot themselves in the foot.
As a Republican, I approve.
Through the leadership of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson — no thanks to Thomas Massie — the GOP passed a continuing resolution that will fund the government until roughly September, which gives Republicans plenty of time to negotiate a budget deal amongst themselves — to come up with the one big, beautiful bill that they need to pass — and get that done without the government simply falling apart.
That&#8217;s why the government shutdown was averted by the Republicans in the House. Now, it gets passed onto the Senate, where the GOP has a majority. Rand Paul has said he&#8217;s going to vote against the continuing resolution (CR), but there&#8217;s still 52 votes in favor. Even if it got down to 50 votes, JD Vance would then break the tie in favor of the CR.
So, if you&#8217;re a Democrat at this point, you&#8217;re looking at the state of the economy, which is somewhat dicey and volatile, because you can&#8217;t predict the future there. That is their only tool to attack President Trump. What the Democrats don&#8217;t want to do is get into the business of owning the economy. Why would you want to own that if Republicans had fallen down on the job and been unable to pass a continuing resolution? They could have blamed Republicans for the shutdown.
This was the Democratic plan in the House. It&#8217;s the reason why Hakeem Jeffries instructed Democrats not to vote in favor of the so-called clean continuing resolution, which is just a maintenance of funding at current levels all the way through September. All Democrats, except for one, did not participate in the CR.
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But now the Democrats seem to want to actively kill the continuing resolution and push America into a government shutdown that they clearly will own.
That move makes no sense, politically speaking. Yesterday, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/government-shutdown-democrats-funding-deadline-bcb67826" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported, “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threw a wrench into a Republican plan to avert a government shutdown this weekend, saying there wasn’t enough Democratic support to advance the measure funding federal agencies through Sept. 30.”
You may be wondering, don&#8217;t Republicans actually have a majority in the Senate?
Yes, they do. But in order to overcome a filibuster, in order to invoke cloture, they need 60 votes.
Democrats could simply eschew filibustering. They could just say, “Fine, listen, you want to vote for the CR? Then vote for the CR.” Instead, Democrats are now actively considering filibustering a clean continuing resolution, which makes no political sense. Most Americans are just saying, “Leave us alone,” which is effectively what the CR does.
If Democrats want to throw a wrench into that for no apparent reason, then they will own any government shutdown. And if the economy turns south, then they own it. They own a big chunk of that because a government shutdown is going to throw all sorts of scares into the market.
The Journal continued:
<blockquote>Republicans “do not have the votes in the Senate,” to move the resolution forward, Schumer said on the Senate floor, indicating that his party was prepared to block it. He blamed Republicans, saying they “chose a partisan path” in their bill without any input from congressional Democrats.</blockquote>
It sure seems partisan to use your 47 votes in the United States Senate to hold up 53 votes in the Senate, simply because your base is mad at you for not standing up enough to President Trump&#8217;s agenda.
The Journal continued, writing, “As an alternative, Schumer floated a shorter-term plan that would fund the government for a month. ‘I hope my Republican colleagues will join us to avoid a shutdown on Friday,’ he said.”
Schumer is hoping the Republican coalition will fall apart in the meantime and that the economy will fall apart during that month. He&#8217;s hoping the stock market crashes in that interim month, and then he won&#8217;t be blamed no matter what happens.
But, again, what he&#8217;s doing right now makes no political sense. He is injecting Democrats into the middle of the most dicey proposition for the Trump administration.
I don&#8217;t understand any of the logic here. The first rule of politics is do not — do not — get in the way of your opponent making a mistake. Do not interrupt your enemy when your enemy is making a mistake. If the Democrats’ idea is that the Republicans own every aspect of the economy, then they have to let the Republicans own the economy. If they inject themselves into that process in order to shut down the government, they then own what comes next.
Republicans know this, which is why House Speaker Mike Johnson said the ball is in Schumer&#8217;s court.
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The Democrats hope that funding the CR for a short term will force the Republicans to basically negotiate with Democrats. But that is not what&#8217;s going to happen. The GOP is fully willing to allow Democrats to own a government shutdown; Schumer is going to have to own it.
If you invoke a filibuster in order to own a government shutdown, you are a moron.
And what Schumer is doing here is really stupid.
It&#8217;s virtually the best-case scenario for President Trump. Let&#8217;s say Schumer does the filibuster, and the government shutdown occurs because he did the filibuster. President Trump then has the unique capacity to determine who exactly is an essential worker under federal law. At that point, he can let Elon Musk in there with the chainsaw.
They&#8217;re playing right into Trump&#8217;s hands.

Senate Takes Up Budget Bill Passed By House As Funding Deadline Looms

Democrats Threaten To Shut Down The Government. How Dumb Are They?

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President Donald Trump slammed the Democratic Party on Wednesday while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with Ireland Prime Minister Micheál Martin.
Trump took specific aim at the party over its members refusing to stand during his remarks to Congress last week when he honored young women who had been murdered by illegal aliens and a young boy who was suffering from brain cancer.
&#8220;The Democrats have no clue,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;You saw that the other night during the speech. Two young women were slaughtered by illegal aliens. One young man has very serious cancer and many other problems. We look at the people up there. They all had difficulty, very serious difficulty.&#8221;
&#8220;The whole story that evening was a disaster for the Democrats, in my opinion,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And I would mention, and I&#8217;d see two mothers that were inconsolable as they stood crying, their daughters have been absolutely just destroyed. Killed, viciously killed. And the young man who loves the police departments, he had cancer, has cancer, very bad cancer. There wasn&#8217;t a, from people sitting there, Democrats, there wasn&#8217;t a hand clap. Nobody stood. They were just stone-faced.&#8221;
Trump continued: &#8220;These people are sick. There&#8217;s something wrong with them. There was no standing for anybody.&#8221;
He said the only thing that they liked was &#8220;when they heard about the death taking place with Ukraine.&#8221;
&#8220;They were happy about that,&#8221; he said as he mentioned that was why he called out Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during the event.
&#8220;Pocahontas was very happy,&#8221; he said of Warren. &#8220;She&#8217;s the one that was clapping. That&#8217;s why I looked at her and I said, &#8216;Oh, it&#8217;s Pocahontas.&#8217; These people are sick.&#8221;
Trump added that he believes that Democrats &#8220;don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s happening in the real world&#8221; and that they better &#8220;get their act together.&#8221;
He specifically mentioned the upcoming vote on taxes and warned that if they shoot down tax cuts, people&#8217;s taxes are going to go &#8220;through the roof.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re going to have a very bad time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You can have some very bad things happen, and people are going to blame the Democrats.&#8221;
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&#8220;Democrats have NO CLUE. You saw that the other night during the speech,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>.
&#8220;They don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s happening in the real world. The Democrats have to get their act together.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/vv6vkaHOGe">pic.twitter.com/vv6vkaHOGe</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1899858222204268795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2025</a></blockquote>

President Trump Meets With Irish Prime Minister Martin For St. Patrick’s Visit

Trump Rips Democrats For Behavior During Address: ‘These People Are Sick’

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Top Senate Democrat Jeanne Shaheen announced on Wednesday that she will not seek reelection in 2026, creating a prime pickup opportunity for Republicans in New Hampshire&#8217;s historically swing-state Senate race.
Shaheen, 78, previously served three terms as governor of New Hampshire until being elected to the Senate in 2008. The senator serves as the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important for New Hampshire and the country to have a new generation of leadership,&#8221; said Shaheen.
She will have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/politics/jeanne-shaheen-new-hampshire-senate-2026.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=08E71C55-51B1-483B-B732-EC5068702A73">served</a> 30 years in elected office and spent 50 years in politics by the end of her term, per the New York Times.
New Hampshire voters have shown increasing Republican leanings in recent elections. While supporting Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, they simultaneously elected former Senator Kelly Ayotte as governor and expanded GOP majorities in the state legislature.
Her departure sets up what will likely be one of the most competitive Senate races in 2026, in a map that experts say already favors Republicans.
Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman of the Center for Politics <a href="https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/our-initial-senate-ratings-republicans-start-as-strong-favorites-to-hold-majority/">wrote</a> in February, “Even if 2026 is an overall &#8216;blue wave&#8217; environment, expecting Democrats to win back the Senate sets the bar too high—the seats just are not there,” writing before Shaheen’s announcement.
Several prominent Republicans were already considering running for her seat before Shaheen&#8217;s announcement. Former GOP Governor Chris Sununu <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5189899-sununu-possible-senate-bid/">said</a> on Tuesday about a possible bid, &#8220;I have not ruled it out completely, but folks in Washington have asked me to think about it and to consider it, and that is just kind of where I am,&#8221; after previously dismissing speculations of a run.
Sununu <a href="https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/new-hampshire/statewide-offices/">won</a> his 2022 gubernatorial race by more than 15 points in a Democratic wave year, leading many GOP strategists to point to him as the top candidate for 2026. Governor Ayotte and former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown are also reportedly considering entering the race.

Senate Democrats’ Medicare drug pricing presser

Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen Won’t Run In 2026, Opening Up Key Seat

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Even with seemingly the entire country shifting away from diversity, equity, and inclusion, the Senate Democrats are beefing up their DEI bonafides as they launch their effort to win back the upper chamber.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee – the campaign arm of Senate Democrats – recently retooled its leadership team for the 2026 election cycle. One of the top hires, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/01/24/dscc-executive-director-2026-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Axios</a>, was for an operative named Jessica Knight Henry to be its chief diversity and inclusion officer.
The new hire immediately posted <a href="https://2244cf6a.streaklinks.com/CS7JN6C09HVAR8ZlkgshFXdA/https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLScJ-5moKTzv7pSqNuM-qSLJ4r9KON9CthFfpLwQBd2A20IocA%2Fviewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a resume bank</a> on LinkedIn for the 2026 election cycle asking candidates to submit optional “DEI information” to help “build diverse, strategic teams” at the DSCC. The resume bank also gives numerous gender identities for applicants to choose from, including “Woman (cis),” “Man (cis),” “Trans* woman / Transfeminine,” “Trans* man / Transmasculine,” “Non-binary,” “Prefer not to say,” and “other.”
The resume bank also asks candidates for their sexual orientation, providing options such as “Heterosexual or straight,” “Gay or lesbian,” “Bisexual,” “Pansexual,” “Asexual,” “Prefer not to say,” and “Other,” which can be left blank.
Recent polls have found that Americans have gotten tired of DEI practices. A poll from CRC Advisors provided <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-poll-finds-majority-of-voters-oppose-race-and-gender-identity-based-hiring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusively</a> to The Daily Wire found that 66% of respondents opposed the idea of their company “relying on race, gender identity, and sexuality-based hiring and promotion practices?” A majority of Democrats and liberals – 54% each – also said they oppose the discriminatory practice.
A similar <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/voters-back-trump-ending-dei-programs-poll-shows-federal-deadline-looms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> conducted by Fox News around the same time found that nearly one-third of voters said it was “extremely important” that Trump move to cut DEI initiatives.
Companies have also moved to distance themselves from the practice, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-rolls-back-dei-joining-other-major-companies-like-walmart-meta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including Target</a>, saying it understood “the importance of staying in step with the evolving external landscape.” Target is now scaling back its pledge to invest more than $2 billion in black-owned businesses, adding more than 500 black-owned brands, and increasing the exposure of diverse brands through paid media. As part of its scaling back, Target will no longer focus on diversity when choosing suppliers, The Daily Wire reported.
Walmart, McDonald’s, Meta, and many others have also said they would be scaling back their DEI practices. Some companies, like Costco and JP Morgan Chase, publicly refused to end their racist hiring practices.
In addition to businesses, some schools have also announced they would scale back their DEI efforts, <a href="https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1886420818344730965?s=12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> the University of Minnesota.
In one of his first acts as president, Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> to eliminate DEI from the federal government. In response, incoming Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-agency-eliminates-all-dei-programs-after-trumps-executive-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he eliminated DEI practices from his agency.
“Promoting invidious forms of discrimination runs contrary to the Communications Act and deprives Americans of their rights to fair and equal treatment under the law. It also represents a wasteful expenditure of taxpayer resources,” Carr said. “Nonetheless, the FCC joined other private and public sector institutions in promoting discriminatory DEl policies during the Biden Administration. The FCC did so by embedding DEl in its strategic priorities, budget requests, advisory groups, rulemaking proceedings, and many other components of its official work.”
The Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has also gutted its DEI programs from the U.S. military, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-guts-dei-programs-from-u-s-military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEl) policies, as defined in the January 27, 2025, Executive Order, are incompatible with the values of DoD,” Hegseth wrote. “The DoD will strive to provide merit-based, color-blind, equal opportunities to Service members but will not guarantee or strive for equal outcomes.”
Democrats currently have just 47 Senators, the fewest they&#8217;ve had since 2014. To reclaim the majority in the 2026 midterms, they will have to win back control of four seats, which, given <a href="https://rollcall.com/2025/01/07/senate-vulnerable-2026-midterm-electio/">the map</a> and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-favorability-underwater-by-26-points-while-trump-enjoys-net-positive-rating-poll-shows">party&#8217;s unpopularity with voters</a>, will be a major lift.

Senate Dems Double Down On DEI As Rest Of Country Runs The Other Way

Senate Democrats Doubling Down On DEI As Others Move Away From Racist Ideology

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> Democrats blocked on Wednesday legislation that aims to protect babies born alive in botched <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortions</a>.
By a <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00011.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">52-47 vote</a> along party lines, the Republican-led upper chamber failed to invoke cloture on the &#8220;Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.&#8221; A two-thirds majority was needed for consideration of the legislation to commence.
The chamber&#8217;s two newest members, Sens. Ashley Moody (R-FL) and Jon Husted (R-OH), who were appointed to replace Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, respectively, cast their first vote in favor of the bill.
&#8220;Senate Democrats just voted to block the Born-Alive Act. This isn&#8217;t complicated: babies who survive a failed abortion deserve medical care. It&#8217;s truly unbelievable that protecting these precious lives is a partisan issue. I&#8217;ll never stop fighting for the voiceless,&#8221; Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) <a href="https://x.com/SenKatieBritt/status/1882162968017961311" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-gop-lawmakers-introduce-born-alive-abortion-survivors-protection-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported exclusively</a> last week that a group of lawmakers led by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) were again introducing the bill that Republicans have tried and failed to get enacted over the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22legislation%22%2C%22search%22%3A%22Born-Alive+Abortion+Survivors+Protection+Act%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">past few</a> sessions of Congress.
As written, the bill <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/6/text?s=1&amp;r=4&amp;q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Born-Alive+Abortion+Survivors+Protection+Act%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seeks</a> to &#8220;prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.&#8221;
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The Senate Judiciary Democrats account on X <a href="https://x.com/JudiciaryDems/status/1882162704015925517" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that Republicans were &#8220;pushing an unnecessary messaging bill today. It’s already law: any child born in America regardless of circumstance is afforded equal protection.&#8221; The account added: &#8220;The so-called &#8216;Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act&#8217; would only harm doctors and women.&#8221;
A number of Republicans begged to differ, including Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), who responded to a post from The Daily Wire&#8217;s White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan <a href="https://x.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1882164567176089824" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcing</a> that Democrats had blocked the bill.
&#8220;Republicans are NOT the radical party on the issue of life. Don&#8217;t let them put you in a corner. Democrats can&#8217;t even concede that a baby, born alive, should receive medical treatment if they survived an abortion. As the father of six, 3 of whom we adopted, this makes me sick,&#8221; Mullin <a href="https://x.com/senmullin/status/1882175129377194180?s=46" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>.
&#8220;I am disappointed that every Senate Democrat voted against my Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, making something that should be commonsense, completely partisan for the first time,&#8221; Lankford <a href="https://x.com/SenatorLankford/status/1882168884792594588" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X of his own. &#8220;This bill is straightforward and would save lives. I believe every life is valuable and that no one is disposable.&#8221;

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Senate Dems Block Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Abortion

Social Issues

Leading <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> Republicans have been delivering fiery rebukes as their Democrat colleagues slowed down the process of confirming President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s Cabinet nominees for his nascent second term in the White House.
After Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) objected to a so-called <a href="https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1881841277626671515" target="_blank" rel="noopener">time agreement</a> that would have allowed a final vote on <a href="https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/1881476717325558114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Ratcliffe</a>&#8216;s nomination to become CIA director on Tuesday, Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) voiced his dismay in <a href="https://www.c-span.org/event/us-senate/us-senate/430291" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> on the Senate floor while stressing that the upper chamber would press ahead with Trump&#8217;s picks.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve now wasted a whole day where we could have been acting on that nomination,&#8221; Thune said, adding that the question before the Senate was &#8220;do we want a vote on these folks on Tuesday or vote on them on Friday, Saturday and Sunday? Because that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to do. This can be easy or this can be hard.&#8221;
Thune highlighted that Ratcliffe, a former House Republican from Texas who served as director of national intelligence at the end of Trump&#8217;s first term, sailed through the Senate Intelligence Committee by a 14-3 vote with bipartisan support.
&#8220;This is about America&#8217;s national security interests. And we&#8217;re stalling,&#8221; Thune continued. &#8220;So that&#8217;s not going to happen. We&#8217;re going to file cloture on them. You can force us to stay here, staying around here. And we can vote on these things Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But we&#8217;re going to vote on them.&#8221;
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As I’ve repeatedly said, Senate Republicans are ready to work as long as needed to confirm President Trump’s nominees. Nights. Weekends. Recesses. <a href="https://t.co/yLl2hIo0pc">pic.twitter.com/yLl2hIo0pc</a>
&mdash; Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeaderJohnThune/status/1881880780319944809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Thune also took procedural steps that will pave the way to final confirmation votes in the coming days for Ratcliffe&#8217;s nomination, as well as South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem&#8217;s nomination to become Homeland Security secretary and Pete Hegseth&#8217;s nomination to become Defense secretary — both of whom have advanced out of committee, too.
With a post to X featuring a video of his remarks, Thune suggested there could even be recess appointments. Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-how-recess-appointments-work-and-how-they-could-help-trump-fill-his-cabinet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocated</a> for installing his own nominees in such a manner, during a recess, if the Senate fails to confirm them in a &#8220;timely manner.&#8221;
In rejecting the Senate Republicans&#8217; bid to proceed more swiftly with a confirmation vote on Ratcliffe&#8217;s nomination, Murphy <a href="https://www.c-span.org/event/us-senate/us-senate/430291" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he wanted a &#8220;full&#8221; debate that lasted a couple more days while insisting that some members had &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; that the CIA pick would not be able to &#8220;distance himself from the political interests of President Trump.&#8221;
But Senate Intelligence Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) wasn&#8217;t buying it. He rejected Murphy&#8217;s claim about Democrats needing more time to discuss Ratcliffe&#8217;s nomination and surmised that &#8220;what this is really about is trying to drag out all of these nominations to play procedural games, as we&#8217;re about to, with Pete Hegseth&#8217;s nomination to try to deny President Trump his Cabinet in a prompt and timely fashion.&#8221;
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My message to obstructionist Democrats:
Don’t make plans this weekend. We’re going to get President Trump’s nominees confirmed the easy collegial way, or apparently the hard way. <a href="https://t.co/DJrA09bTqk">pic.twitter.com/DJrA09bTqk</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1881851088980279482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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So far, the GOP-led Senate has approved just one of Trump&#8217;s Cabinet nominees: now-former senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, who on Tuesday was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marco-rubio-sworn-in-says-war-in-ukraine-must-end" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sworn in</a> to office as U.S. Secretary of State after being confirmed by a unanimous vote on Monday.
While some delays may be <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/confirmation-delays-stack-up-trump-nominees-paperwork-lags-federal-offices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">due to paperwork</a>, the Senate Judiciary Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-democrats-put-arbitrary-hold-on-pam-bondi-nomination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that Democrats pushed back a meeting to vote on advancing the nomination of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pam-bondi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pam Bondi</a> to become U.S. attorney general by a week with a hold allowed under the rules.

John Thune

Senate Republicans Erupt Over Dem ‘Stalling’ Of Trump Nominees

Chris Murphy

John Ratcliffe

Kristi Noem

Pam Bondi

Pete Hegseth

Tom Cotton

Leftist Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy was harshly criticized after he insisted in the wake of the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, “Murder isn’t justified. It isn’t,” then followed with, “but&#8230;”
Murphy, who mocked President-elect Donald Trump over the summer as “ridiculous” and “reckless” during the presidential campaign, released a video on Sunday in which he demagogued the issue of violence against the heads of insurance companies.
“Listen, I think that political leaders in this country need to be part of this conversation that’s happening all over the country in the wake of the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO,” he declared. Then, patting himself on the back, he continued. “I know that it’s fraught; I know that it’s uncomfortable, but this is really important.”
“Listen, I’m never going to condone violence; I don’t here,” he stated. “I spend my entire life fighting gun violence because I know that the devastation is enormous that it leaves behind. What I see happening in this country, though, is a real visceral anger, that the outrage at Brian Thompson’s death, or the outrage at the death of any powerful person, isn’t matched by the anger over the thousands of people who die often anonymous deaths every single day in this country at the hands of a healthcare industry that mostly doesn’t give a sh** about people, and only care about profits.”
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“Ordinary people in this country are not indifferent to the loss of life but these companies are,” he insisted before vilifying insurance companies. “Why do I know this? Why do millions of Americans know this? Because the business model of the healthcare industry is to deny care, necessary medical care, to people who need it, and force them into bankruptcy or worse, let them die in order to grow profit. There are a ton of good people in the healthcare industry: nurses, doctors. But that’s an immoral system.&#8221;
Then he launched into his diatribe: “Watching people die, ruining families financially to pad profits and make money for the people who run the biggest companies? Murder is never justified. It isn’t. But if this country’s leaders don’t pay attention to the conversation that’s happening right now, this weekend, that is a mistake.”
“People in America today feel ignored, they feel scared, they feel alone in a system that intentionally grinds them down. A system where profit matters more than life. My colleagues need to listen, and we need to do something about it,” he concluded.
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I know it&#8217;s uncomfortable for political leaders to wade into the conversation that&#8217;s happening in this country in the aftermath of the murder of the United Health CEO. But we need to listen to what people are feeling. And act. <a href="https://t.co/V3WwRV74Fo">pic.twitter.com/V3WwRV74Fo</a>
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1868406841325007036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Social media ripped into Murphy:
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Maybe you should stop following the people cheering on execution on BlueSky.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1868442013915562475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Holy crap. This is a senator essentially justifying murder. <a href="https://t.co/MmKNSvZhBy">https://t.co/MmKNSvZhBy</a>
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1868471422605275334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Delete this. Using murder as a call for action is an implicit call for violence that will boomerang. 🪃. This isn’t okay.
I fight like hell to fix our healthcare system which is broken thanks to the straitjacket of insane govt regulations and cronyism. But this is messed up.
— Joe Lonsdale (@JTLonsdale) <a href="https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale/status/1868514936609230928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The pro murder bloc expands. <a href="https://t.co/kkUKmXgP5u">https://t.co/kkUKmXgP5u</a>
— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) <a href="https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1868512939940159828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The lack of self-awareness in this is astonishing.
The government is a terrible, inefficient dumpster that constantly harms people. Would Chris be cool with his logic being applied to himself? <a href="https://t.co/MmKNSvZhBy">https://t.co/MmKNSvZhBy</a>
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1868473761365966882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Last summer, Murphy <a href="https://www.courant.com/2024/04/14/u-s-sen-chris-murphy-with-large-lead-and-9-million-campaign-cash-in-bank/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">predicted,</a> “Biden is going to crush Trump in Connecticut because most Republicans in Connecticut cannot stand Trump. You look where Biden does the best in Connecticut, and it’s often in places where the Republicans just a generation ago would clean up. I think Biden is going to win by 20-plus points in Connecticut. Trump is more ridiculous, more reckless, and more dangerous today than he was four years ago, and I think people in Connecticut know that.”
Vice President Kamala Harris won Connecticut by 14.5 points.
Murphy has also <a href="//C9196CB5-E324-4809-9891-33B06180AD09/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> illegal immigrants the “people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country,&#8221;

2024 Democratic National Convention: Day 3

‘Using Murder As A Call For Action’: Dem Senator Ripped For Comments On UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder

Brian Thompson

Connecticut

Luigi Mangione

Murder

Even though the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/why-ap-called-pennsylvania-senate-f9af5d80be39fcc7a2abb8258a8f3ccf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the Pennsylvania Senate race for Republican David McCormick a week ago, incumbent Democrat Sen. Bob Casey has refused to concede.
Casey and Democrat attorney Marc Elias publicly contested the election, and the close margin triggered a state recount, though McCormick is still expected to win, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsylvania-senate-race-triggers-recount-mccormick-projected-win-casey-yet-concede" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. McCormick currently leads Casey by about 29,000 votes. What’s especially interesting about the push to contest the election by Elias is that his website features a link to an article denouncing Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) Republican challenger for failing to concede.
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Too perfect. The website of Marc Elias, an attorney for Bob Casey, has this article about how Eric Hovde won&#8217;t concede his Wisconsin Senate loss while despite trailing by 29,000 votes. Bob Casey is also down 29,000 votes, and refuses to concede. <a href="https://t.co/NREdmIdB7d">pic.twitter.com/NREdmIdB7d</a>
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1856882192170840337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Baldwin had the same lead – 29,000 votes – as McCormick does.
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In 2020, contesting or questioning the results of the election led to Republicans being called “election deniers,” so The Daily Wire reached out to every Senate Democrat office to see if they believed Casey was an election denier.
Here are their responses.
Current Democrat Senators:
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Sen. Baldwin’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Sen. Bennet’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
Sen. Blumenthal’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Sen. Booker’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Sherrod Brown  (D-OH)
Sen. Brown’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA)
Sen. Butler’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Sen. Cantwell’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Sen. Cardin’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE)
Sen. Carper’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-WI)
Sen. Coon’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Sen. Cortez Masto’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
Sen. Duckworth’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
“The race is extremely close, and state officials need time to finish counting ballots,” a spokesperson for Durbin’s office told The Daily Wire. “Sen. Durbin believes that every legal vote must be counted and then a winner will be declared.”
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)
Sen. Fetterman’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry, but his team did send out an email asking for donations to help Casey during the recount in Pennsylvania.
“Folks, I’m going to be real with you: Bob Casey needs our help right now,” the email reads. “His race with Connecticut Dave is still too close to call and we need your help to make sure Pennsylvanians’ voices are heard.”
“Bob’s team is working hard while votes are still being counted, but they need the resources to make that happen,” the email continues. “Pennsylvania is now the frontline for standing up to Senate Republicans and I need Bob in the Senate with me to keep up the fight.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Sen. Gillibrand’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
Sen. Hassan’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
Sen. Heinrich’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. George Helmy (D-NJ)
Sen. Helmy’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Sen. Hickenlooper’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
Sen. Hirono’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Sen. Kaine’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
Sen. Kelly’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Angus King (D-ME)
Sen. King’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Sen. Klobuchar’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM)
Sen. Lujan’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)
Sen. Markey’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jeff Merkley  (D-OR)
Sen. Merkley’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Sen. Murphy’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
Sen. Murray’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA)
Sen. Ossoff’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA)
Sen. Padilla’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)
Sen. Peters’ office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)
Sen. Reed’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
Sen. Rosen’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT)
Sen. Sanders’ office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)
Sen. Schatz’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Chuck Schumer  (D-NY)
Sen. Schumer’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Sen. Shaheen’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)
Sen. Smith’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Sen. Stabenow’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jon Tester  (D-MT)
Sen. Tester’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
Sen. Van Hollen’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
Sen. Warner’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry, but his campaign sent out an email asking for donations to support Casey – and Warner.
“Folks, the race is not over in Pennsylvania,” the fundraising email says. “This Senate race is still too close to call, and we need to act fast to make sure Pennsylvanians’ voices are heard. Our team needs your help to keep this work going.”
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA)
Sen. Warnock’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Sen. Warren’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT)
Sen. Welch’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Sen. Whitehouse’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Ron Wyden  (D-OR)
Sen. Wyden’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Incoming Democrat Senators:
Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD)
Alsobrooks did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
Rep. Blunt Rochester did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)
Rep. Gallego did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
Rep. Schiff did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)
Rep. Slotkin did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.

Sen. Bob Casey

We Asked Every Dem Senator About Bob Casey’s Refusal To Concede. Here Are Their Responses.

We Asked Every Dem Senator About Bob Casey's Refusal To Concede. Here Are Their Responses.

2024 Election

Bob Casey

David McCormick

Elections

Pennsylvania

During the Biden-Harris administration, Democrats called to eliminate the filibuster and add justices to the Supreme Court in order to bolster their political power. Now, with a Republican president and Republican Senate majority incoming, The Daily Wire thought it would reach out to Senate Democrats to see if they&#8217;ve changed their minds.
The Daily Wire reached out to every Democrat Senate office, even Sens. Sherrod Brown (OH), Bob Casey (PA), and Jon Tester (MT), who all lost re-election, to ask for their stance on the two subjects. We also reached out to independent Sens. Angus King (ME) and Bernie Sanders (VT), who caucus with Democrats, and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), whose race hasn&#8217;t been called. For those who have not publicly supported or who have publicly opposed either the elimination of the filibuster or packing the Supreme Court, they were asked what they would say to their fellow Democrats who have supported such measures.
The Daily Wire also reached out to the incoming Democrat Senators, who all expressed a desire to end the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court (except for Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who is not on record saying she would add Supreme Court seats) to see if they still supported these positions now that Trump won and Republicans have taken back the Senate.
Here are their responses.
Current Democrat Senators:
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Sen. Baldwin’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Sen. Bennet’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
Sen. Blumenthal’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Sen. Booker’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Sherrod Brown  (D-OH)
Sen. Brown’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA)
Sen. Butler’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Sen. Cantwell’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Sen. Cardin’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE)
Sen. Carper’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Bob Casey  (D-PA)
Sen. Casey’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-WI)
Sen. Coon’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Sen. Cortez Masto’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
Sen. Duckworth’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Durbin’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)
Sen. Fetterman’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Sen. Gillibrand’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
Sen. Hassan’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
Sen. Heinrich’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. George Helmy (D-NJ)
Sen. Helmy’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Sen. Hickenlooper’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
Sen. Hirono’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Sen. Kaine’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
Sen. Kelly’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Angus King (D-ME)
Sen. King’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Sen. Klobuchar’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM)
Sen. Lujan’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)
Sen. Markey’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jeff Merkley  (D-OR)
Sen. Merkley’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Sen. Murphy’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
Sen. Murray’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA)
Sen. Ossoff’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA)
Sen. Padilla’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)
Sen. Peters’ office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)
Sen. Reed’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
Sen. Rosen’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT)
Sen. Sanders’ office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)
Sen. Schatz’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Chuck Schumer  (D-NY)
Sen. Schumer’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Sen. Shaheen’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)
Sen. Smith’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Sen. Stabenow’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Jon Tester  (D-MT)
Sen. Tester’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
Sen. Van Hollen’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
Sen. Warner’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA)
Sen. Warnock’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Sen. Warren’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT)
Sen. Welch’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Sen. Whitehouse’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Sen. Ron Wyden  (D-OR)
Sen. Wyden’s office did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Incoming Democrat Senators:
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
Rep. Schiff did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)
Rep. Slotkin did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
Rep. Blunt Rochester did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD)
Alsobrooks did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Races Not Yet Called:
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)
Rep. Gallego did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.

Sen. Chuck Schumer

We Asked Every Dem Senator About The Filibuster And SCOTUS. Here Are Their Responses.

Supreme Court

Today should be “American Girls in Sports Day,” a commemorative time to celebrate all of women’s contributions to athletics.
In many ways, October 10 is the perfect date for this occasion: As the 10th day of the 10th month of the year, it represents the Roman numerals XX — the same numerals as the female sex chromosome. Earlier this year, I introduced a resolution to establish this holiday, garnering support from female athletes, prominent women’s organizations, and <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-resolution/669/cosponsors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">38 of my Senate Republican</a> colleagues.
In a divided government, however, you need support from both sides of the aisle to accomplish almost anything. And for today’s Democratic Party, recognizing women’s accomplishments is unacceptable. For them, my resolution runs afoul of their far-Left agenda to blur the line between the sexes — and ultimately erase women from public life.
In fact, when I <a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-170/issue-144/senate-section/article/S6075-2?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22%5C%22American+Girls+in+Sports+Day%5C%22%22%7D&amp;s=1&amp;r=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for the resolution’s passage last month on the Senate floor, a Democratic colleague spoke out against it, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-170/issue-144/senate-section/article/S6075-2?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22%5C%22American+Girls+in+Sports+Day%5C%22%22%7D&amp;s=1&amp;r=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> the legislation “shameful” and “designed to build a culture of fear and mistrust.”
In reality, American Girls in Sports Day should draw the support of every single Tennessean and American and unite our country around women&#8217;s incredible athletic accomplishments since the passage of Title IX, the landmark civil rights law that opened the door for so many women and young girls to participate in sports.
Don’t take my word for it: I encourage everyone to <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-resolution/669/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read the text</a> of the resolution. If you do, you might be wondering how anyone could oppose American Girls in Sports Day. But while Democrats’ opposition to the commemorative holiday is disturbing, it is far from surprising.
For years, the Biden-Harris administration has worked to eliminate women&#8217;s-only spaces, facilities, and sports by attacking Title IX protections.
Since its passage in 1972, Title IX has led to an explosion in women’s participation in athletics — with the number of high school female athletes <a href="https://answers.childrenshospital.org/female-athletes-qol/#:~:text=Before%20its%20passage%20in%201972,girls%20and%20college%2Dage%20women." target="_blank" rel="noopener">increasing</a> more than tenfold to more than 3 million — by guaranteeing equal resources for facilities, training, recruitment, and scholarships for female athletic programs. In the name of its radical agenda, however, the administration has tried to roll back this progress.
On the 50th anniversary of Title IX in 2022, for example, President Biden announced his administration would <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/23/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-title-ix/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinterpret</a> the law to allow biological males to play on female teams. Earlier this year, the Biden-Harris administration <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-dismantles-trump-era-title-ix-rules-sidesteps-issue-trans-athletes-girls-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued another</a> Title IX revision that allows males to access women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and other private facilities.
As a result, more and more girls and women <a href="https://www.shewon.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are losing out</a> on scholarships, records, and medals to males who have inherent biological advantages that undermine fair competition.
On the Senate floor, my Democratic colleague dismissed this erasure of women’s accomplishments, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-170/issue-144/senate-section/article/S6075-2?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22%5C%22American+Girls+in+Sports+Day%5C%22%22%7D&amp;s=1&amp;r=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> that female athletes are more likely to be “killed by a falling object in this country” than face a biological male in competition. Apparently, that’s supposed to comfort the many women and girls across our country who have endured the humiliation, demoralization, and unfairness of losing to male competitors.
These young women deserve so much better. Thankfully, many are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-didnt-you-protect-us-riley-gaines-demands-accountability-from-georgia-tech-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaking out</a> to defend their hard-earned places and accomplishments in sports. Although today isn’t officially American Girls in Sports Day, we should all take a moment to reflect on all they have accomplished. In the meantime, I will continue to fight to ensure that our nation’s female athletes have the recognition, honors, and opportunities that they have worked so hard for — and deserve.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn represents the state of Tennessee and serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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