The slope to despotism can be slippery and quick.

I want to come to the floor today to talk about a success story but, potentially, a success story interrupted. Back in 2022, we all were shocked to watch news playing out during an afternoon that we were here, working in the Senate, of…

Your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.

I'm introducing a bill called the MEME Act.

my colleagues, you are going to hear a lot of stories about the first 100 days of President Trump's second Presidency, and, indeed, there are a lot of stories. There is a story of incompetence. We are dealing with multiple measles…

This is the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.

This isn’t Trump just being Trump. The Trump coin scam is the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.

So many people are predisposed to believe that Trump’s second term is as incompetent as his first term.

Just because the corruption plays out in public doesn’t mean it’s not corruption.

I was sitting with the CEO of one of America's biggest and most influential companies last month, and I asked him a simple question: What could President Trump do that would be a bridge too far for you? What attack on democracy or the rule…

[make] it clear he was eager for his people to make money off the private info only he knew.

a tool to try to compel pledges of loyalty

It’s not economic policy, it’s not trade policy. It’s a political weapon designed to collapse our democracy.

the budget that we are debating really comes down to one simple idea: the massive transfer of wealth and resources from the poor and the middle class to the ultrawealthy. What is being proposed in the Senate right now is stunning in its…

I thank the Senator for the question. Listen, I read it as just a different kind of thievery. So what we are talking about here is this massive thievery from Medicaid recipients so that we can pass along this big tax break for folks that…

so we have learned that the Republicans think that it is essential to blow up the deficit and debt in order to allow people making $100 million a year to get a tax cut. But what about a half a billion dollars? Do you think it is fair to…

I call up my amendment No. 1977 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Connecticut [Mr. Murphy] proposes an amendment numbered 1977 to…

Thank you, Senator Whitehouse, first of all, for all the work you have put into passing that legislation, which has given access to millions of people across the country who are struggling with addiction and recovery access to services…

It is thievery masked by a bogus economic argument that says the money will eventually find its way down to everybody else. That is not true. That has never been true. In fact, the opposite is often true. The billionaire class is sometimes…

the people still have the power.

this week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won't understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That's because they don't. They aren't designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super…

the tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry.

Senator Booker, it has been a wonder to be with you on the floor these last 24 hours. You indeed did something extraordinary and performed a sympathy filibuster with me 9 years ago where, as I stood at that desk for 15 hours, you stood on…

Feeling like there was nothing you could do and watching your elected leader stand by and allow for this reality to continue to occur in your neighborhood, where kids are being shot down in cold blood and your elected leaders--the adults…

So there is also a third agenda here. We were not necessarily both here at this time, but a few Republican administrations ago, there was an attempt to privatize Social Security, to take, you know, the corpus and move that money into the…