Jake Johnson Posts

"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."

"No matter how many PR statements Big Business puts out, its complicity with the antidemocratic forces that want to make voting harder is clear."

"We have so much to look forward to, so much promise and potential of where we are and so much reason for hope, but right now I'm scared."

"We estimate that 36% of federal income taxes unpaid are owed by the top 1%."

"Surprising advocates, legislators, and voters with a nearly 100-page bill is undemocratic and unacceptable."

Manchin floated a return to the talking filibuster, which would represent a major change to the current "no-show filibuster" that allows obstruction via email.

"When Sen. Johnson voted to cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans, he didn't force staff to read the bill. But now that working people need help, he's forcing a delay."

"Five million Texans are without power tonight and temperatures are below freezing. People will most certainly die tonight because of it. But Gov. Abbott had time to go on Sean Hannity to blame the Green New Deal."

"It says so much about how utterly rigged the system is that it takes a team of lawyers to figure out some hail-mary-pass way to raise the minimum wage."

"This would save over $250 billion, which should be repurposed to help Americans who have lost income due to the pandemic and its economic fallout."

"McConnell is already abusing the filibuster to block the constitution of the new majority. Nuking the filibuster is the appropriate response."