However, as we near the funding deadline, Republicans are once again threatening to go-at-it-alone – heading our country towards a shutdown.

The only way to avoid a shutdown is to work in a bipartisan way, with a bill that can get both Republican and Democratic votes in the Senate.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Reasonable Republicans don't have to go along with the madness; Republicans don't have to be a rubber stamp for this carnage.

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

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

Donald Trump knew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be a disastrous pick to lead health care in America and he nominated him anyway.

RFK Jr.’s stubborn, pigheaded, and conspiracy-based attacks on proven science are going to make many more people sick and cause more deaths.

I walk around all the time . . . and I feel perfectly safe.

I’m closely monitoring the tragic tour bus accident in Western NY. We’re in contact with NTSB and they are en route to the scene to launch an investigation. I’m heartbroken for all those we’ve lost and all those injured and praying for…

This is a political ploy and an attempted distraction from Trump’s other scandals.

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 and will continue to fight to protect our democracy.

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 and will continue to fight to protect our democracy.

I feel perfectly safe

He needs to get Congress to approve it, and not only are we not going to approve it, but there are some Republicans who don’t like it either.

No fucking way. We’ll fight him tooth and nail.

For all the talk Republicans give about giving their localities their rights, where are they now?

And I know you will be there to make sure when we celebrate our 250th birthday, we remember that America’s a nation of justice, equal justice, of unity, E Pluribus Unum, of treating everyone with dignity.

Why am I putting Jack there? We know that Donald Trump will try to aggrandize the whole thing and make it part of him and his ego.