
Senate Republicans must decide: stand up for the legislative branch or enable Trump’s slide toward authoritarianism.
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Senate Republicans must decide: stand up for the legislative branch or enable Trump’s slide toward authoritarianism.

As the country stares down next month’s government funding deadline on September 30th, it is clear neither President Trump nor Congressional Republicans have any plan to avoid a painful and entirely unnecessary shutdown.

Historically bad nominees deserve a historic level of scrutiny by Senate Democrats.

I will just follow the plain reading, the plain text of the law, and if Congress wants to change the law, then we'll follow whatever that change is.

No, that doesn't sound good; it doesn’t sound right; and it shouldn’t happen.

When you're talking about trillions of dollars of federal policy coming out, it should be something decided by Congress.

Senate Democrats will make sure that any and every measure that would make it even more difficult for Americans to vote will be dead on arrival in the Senate.

By keeping Robert Kennedy in charge of HHS, Trump is doubling down on his own failure.

Trump and Congressional Republicans are hellbent on rejecting bipartisanship and ‘going it alone’ this fall.

America is staring down next month's government funding deadline on September 30. It's clear neither Trump nor congressional Republicans have any plan to avoid a painful and entirely unnecessary shutdown.

He did have a note on him. The note alluded to that he felt he had CTE, a known brain injury for those who participate in contact sports. He appeared to have blamed the NFL for his injury.

We’re launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence.

I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation.

I am committed to working with you to restore trust, transparency, and credibility to the CDC.

Together, we will rebuild this institution into what it was always meant to be: a guardian of America’s health and security.

There’s a lot of trouble at CDC, and it’s going to require getting rid of some people over the long term in order for us to change the institutional culture.

But if Republicans are insistent on going it alone, Democrats won't be party to their destruction.