Tina Smith
@smith.senate.gov
Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
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Tina Smith
@smith.senate.gov
· Oct 30
Hello (again) Bluesky! I’m going to start posting here again, because that other app has become a disaster.
But first, I want to introduce myself. My name is Tina Smith, and I’m a proud United States Senator for Minnesota… ⬇️
But first, I want to introduce myself. My name is Tina Smith, and I’m a proud United States Senator for Minnesota… ⬇️
Americans deserved a better deal than this one.
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Americans deserved a better deal than this one.
Tonight I’m thinking of the millions of parents going to bed wondering how they’re going to put food on the table, keep a roof over their heads, pay their utility bills and keep their health insurance without going broke.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Tonight I’m thinking of the millions of parents going to bed wondering how they’re going to put food on the table, keep a roof over their heads, pay their utility bills and keep their health insurance without going broke.
I will not support this bill that completely fails to help Americans afford their health care.
Trump and R’s have more than doubled Americans’ health care premiums, and for 40 days they have refused to lift a finger to do a thing about it. In fact, they’ve made it worse by taking food from kids.
Trump and R’s have more than doubled Americans’ health care premiums, and for 40 days they have refused to lift a finger to do a thing about it. In fact, they’ve made it worse by taking food from kids.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I will not support this bill that completely fails to help Americans afford their health care.
Trump and R’s have more than doubled Americans’ health care premiums, and for 40 days they have refused to lift a finger to do a thing about it. In fact, they’ve made it worse by taking food from kids.
Trump and R’s have more than doubled Americans’ health care premiums, and for 40 days they have refused to lift a finger to do a thing about it. In fact, they’ve made it worse by taking food from kids.
Corporations don’t pay enough to feed you and your family, so you use SNAP.
Then he punishes you for using SNAP instead of taking on the companies that don’t pay you what you’re worth.
We sometimes forget Trump is just an asshole boss. He always finds a way to blame workers.
Then he punishes you for using SNAP instead of taking on the companies that don’t pay you what you’re worth.
We sometimes forget Trump is just an asshole boss. He always finds a way to blame workers.
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Corporations don’t pay enough to feed you and your family, so you use SNAP.
Then he punishes you for using SNAP instead of taking on the companies that don’t pay you what you’re worth.
We sometimes forget Trump is just an asshole boss. He always finds a way to blame workers.
Then he punishes you for using SNAP instead of taking on the companies that don’t pay you what you’re worth.
We sometimes forget Trump is just an asshole boss. He always finds a way to blame workers.
If your values are to take food from hungry people… well we have very different values let’s just say that.
November 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If your values are to take food from hungry people… well we have very different values let’s just say that.
If they fought for health care half as hard as they do to keep food from hungry families, this whole mess would be solved by now.
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If they fought for health care half as hard as they do to keep food from hungry families, this whole mess would be solved by now.
The only path forward is a deal that protects peoples' health insurance. Trump just needs to get involved in the art of this deal.
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The only path forward is a deal that protects peoples' health insurance. Trump just needs to get involved in the art of this deal.
Empathy bone missing apparently
November 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Empathy bone missing apparently
He’s not even good at lying because everyone knows we’ve been talking about health care for the entire month.
He just knows if he let there be a vote on health insurance subsidies, it’d pass with bipartisan support.
He just knows if he let there be a vote on health insurance subsidies, it’d pass with bipartisan support.
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
He’s not even good at lying because everyone knows we’ve been talking about health care for the entire month.
He just knows if he let there be a vote on health insurance subsidies, it’d pass with bipartisan support.
He just knows if he let there be a vote on health insurance subsidies, it’d pass with bipartisan support.
They have the time to tweet at me but no time for Trump to pick up a phone and negotiate huh?
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
They have the time to tweet at me but no time for Trump to pick up a phone and negotiate huh?
For the love of god can we build housing instead?
Trump: "If you go a couple of years out, you're gonna see numbers like you've never seen. We're building some of the biggest building ever built anywhere in the world. The AI buildings."
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
For the love of god can we build housing instead?
But thank god we remodeled the Oval Office to look like a Saudi palace, right?
November 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
But thank god we remodeled the Oval Office to look like a Saudi palace, right?
Clarifying question: Does needlessly keeping food from working families make us great? Or is it keeping it from seniors on fixed incomes?
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Clarifying question: Does needlessly keeping food from working families make us great? Or is it keeping it from seniors on fixed incomes?
It’s bullshit to say we can’t feed the hungry AND care for the sick. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
We can do both.
We can do both.
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
It’s bullshit to say we can’t feed the hungry AND care for the sick. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
We can do both.
We can do both.
Nothing like a Gatsby party for your uber rich friends at Mar-A-Lago while millions of your neighbors get priced out of health insurance.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social, @warren.senate.gov and I just touched down in Florida because while Trump won’t fight for his neighbors, we will.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social, @warren.senate.gov and I just touched down in Florida because while Trump won’t fight for his neighbors, we will.
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Nothing like a Gatsby party for your uber rich friends at Mar-A-Lago while millions of your neighbors get priced out of health insurance.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social, @warren.senate.gov and I just touched down in Florida because while Trump won’t fight for his neighbors, we will.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social, @warren.senate.gov and I just touched down in Florida because while Trump won’t fight for his neighbors, we will.
Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.
Dear Leader is refusing to help hungry families buy food... and somehow that’s OUR fault because we were greedy enough to want to help Americans afford health care.
October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Dear Leader is refusing to help hungry families buy food... and somehow that’s OUR fault because we were greedy enough to want to help Americans afford health care.
Heck yeah. Stand up. Fight back.
Reuters: DEMOCRATIC-LED STATES FILE LAWSUIT TO BLOCK TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM SUSPENDING SNAP BENEFITS DURING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
October 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Heck yeah. Stand up. Fight back.
They say the definition of insanity is trying the same damn thing over and over and over again expecting a different result.
BREAKING: The Senate vote on a bill to reopen the government fails for the 13th time, with the shutdown now in its 4th week.
Government shutdown live updates as Vance set to meet with Senate Republicans
The government shutdown stretched into Day 28 on Tuesday as Democrats and Republicans remain locked in a stalemate as the toll mounts of the funding lapse. Follow live updates here.
cbsn.ws
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
They say the definition of insanity is trying the same damn thing over and over and over again expecting a different result.
Reposted by Tina Smith
I’ve been in Congress for shutdowns before, but this one is different.
I’ve never witnessed a shutdown where the President of either party has told congressional leaders to not negotiate at all.
He's choosing to raise health care costs for millions of families.
I’ve never witnessed a shutdown where the President of either party has told congressional leaders to not negotiate at all.
He's choosing to raise health care costs for millions of families.
October 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I’ve been in Congress for shutdowns before, but this one is different.
I’ve never witnessed a shutdown where the President of either party has told congressional leaders to not negotiate at all.
He's choosing to raise health care costs for millions of families.
I’ve never witnessed a shutdown where the President of either party has told congressional leaders to not negotiate at all.
He's choosing to raise health care costs for millions of families.
Tweeting this when you haven’t come to work a single day since the shutdown started is really brave.
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Tweeting this when you haven’t come to work a single day since the shutdown started is really brave.
Are we living in the same timeline?
Q: Is any work being done on a Republican solution to the healthcare cliff?
MIKE JOHNSON: When I say that Republicans have been working on a fix for healthcare, we've been doing this for years. We're doing right now what we have been doing.
MIKE JOHNSON: When I say that Republicans have been working on a fix for healthcare, we've been doing this for years. We're doing right now what we have been doing.
October 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Are we living in the same timeline?
Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.
No, they don’t have to.
No, they don’t have to.
October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.
No, they don’t have to.
No, they don’t have to.
Reposted by Tina Smith
Make no mistake: Republicans would come back to DC in a nanosecond if ending the shutdown meant more tax breaks for billionaires, handouts to big banks, or giveaways to the insurance industry.
But some of us want to help regular, working people. I guess that’s a bridge too far.
But some of us want to help regular, working people. I guess that’s a bridge too far.
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Make no mistake: Republicans would come back to DC in a nanosecond if ending the shutdown meant more tax breaks for billionaires, handouts to big banks, or giveaways to the insurance industry.
But some of us want to help regular, working people. I guess that’s a bridge too far.
But some of us want to help regular, working people. I guess that’s a bridge too far.