Jake Johnson Posts

"It's conservative Dems who've ensured that every day for the last several months the headlines are about how we aren't delivering paid leave, prescription drug reform, elder care, or voting rights."

"Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema's efforts to scale back Build Back Better can only leave working families worse off."

"President Biden has the power to remake the postal governing board and remove DeJoy. He must act."

"Poll after poll tells me, and tells you, that what we are trying to do is enormously popular."

"Kushner is the poster child for ultra-rich landlords clamoring to boost their bottom line by kicking families to the curb, even if it comes at the expense of public health."

"President Biden, it is time to call on the Senate to end the filibuster and pass voting rights legislation before it is too late."

"The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or were taxed more)."

"While hospitals in our state were filling up, DeSantis was shouting about 'Freedom over Faucism,'" said one Florida physician.

"Republicans can always be counted on to help billionaires not pay taxes."

"No Senate rule supersedes people's constitutional rights," said the Democratic senator from Georgia.

"Chip Roy says what we all already know: there is no intent of working across the aisle. It's all posturing."

"It's almost as if the pandemic unemployment benefits weren't the issue."

"If people elsewhere in the country are looking to us and saying, 'No thanks' and they are getting vaccinated, that is good," said one health official in Missouri. "We will be the canary."

"It's completely insane that some Dems (ahem Manchin/Sinema) would rather keep the Jim Crow filibuster than stop an avalanche of Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression laws."

"The Democrats in Congress must move forward boldly, protecting the working families of our country and restoring faith in government. Yes, the future of the country is at stake."

"It was bad enough when Palestinians in Gaza weren't able to get vaccinated, but now to reportedly lose their only coronavirus testing lab is... beyond words."

"Plant consolidations are a misguided strategy that not only disrupts the lives of postal workers but will further delay mail."

"What possible justification could there be for USPS running this kind of social-media surveillance program?"

"Congress should act to restore taxes on the wealthy and limit further democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power."

"Manchin represents a state that is 1/22 the population of California and 92% white, yet he can singlehandedly block policies supported by 70-80% of Americans."