Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, the Ocean State.

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Many feel betrayal and frustration, and the feelings are hot right now.

I get it. I have my own feelings.

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November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I voted no tonight.

But the next phase of Democrats’ health care affordability fight is starting.

While I personally don’t believe Republicans will keep their promise to work with us on lowering health care costs, I would be thrilled to be wrong.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Here’s why I like our best-offer-first strategy. If Senate Rs accept it, the danger of being Charlie Browned goes away, and shutdown ends!
November 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Reposted by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Attorney General Pam Bondi saying the quiet part out loud.

The President’s agenda?

Forcing millions of Americans to go hungry to give tax cuts to CEO billionaires.
November 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Reposted by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
It's unbelievable how hard this administration is fighting to keep millions of Americans hungry.
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“…to defend and advance President Trump’s agenda” of starving millions of Americans.

Got it.
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Trump administration’s reckless legal maneuvers sidelined workers and threatened to raise consumer costs by millions.

Luckily, Attorneys General AG Neronha and AG Tong aren’t afraid of a fight.

The latest episode of Making the Case is out now.
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
What happened today in the Senate:
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Jeez, I should hope so.

A corrupt administration selling out ratepayers, to shovel their money to creepy polluter billionaires, damned well better be an issue we can win!
Democrats show early signs of winning energy messaging war
Democrats won gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, where candidates made affordability concerns and skyrocketing electricity bills central to their campaigns.
www.politico.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Since Republicans didn’t want to negotiate, we have gone straight to our best, simplest offer. It’s said you shouldn’t negotiate against yourself; as an offer of good faith, we just did. A simple “yes” to add our language to the latest Thune proposal ends the shutdown ends.
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reposted by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
The administration is now APPEALING the court decision requiring it to provide full food assistance to Americans.

There’s no other way to put it: They are doing everything they can to take food away from Americans in need. Shameful.
BREAKING: The Justice Department said it would file an appeal after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to pay food stamps in full this month www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
So gracious. What a weenie.
It did not take long for President Trump to react gleefully to the retirement announcement by Nancy Pelosi, one of his foremost adversaries. He said her retirement was “a great thing for America.”
Trump blasts Pelosi after retirement announcement
It did not take long for President Trump to react gleefully to the retirement announcement by Nancy Pelosi, one of his foremost adversaries. He said her retirement was “a great thing for...
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Republicans publicly claimed they wouldn’t cut Medicare. That’s why they did it so sneakily.
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Creepy billionaires pursuing a secret plan to see to it that an “aristocracy” of creepy billionaires rules America. What could possibly go wrong.
The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA’s future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.
washingtonpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
When it comes to the homeowners’ insurance crisis, you’re getting screwed on costs AND corruption.
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I will never understand the Republican fetish for cutting health care and hurting their constituents.
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
When you send the National Guard into cities;

When you deploy masked ICE agents to yank people off the streets;

You’re getting Americans used to images they shouldn’t be used to.
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I feel such joy to have worked with surely the Greatest Legislator Of All Time.

Obamacare was just as much Pelosicare, and cap-and-trade would have saved so much hurt.

The legend was earned.
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The billionaires’ justices have been selective in application of their “principles,” depending on which party is helped.

Find me an originalist bone in Citizens United.

Find me a textualist bone in the presidential immunity decision.
Opinion | Tune In to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The Justices Will Be Squirming.
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Well, duh.
A. He doesn’t give a damn.
B. Some of it is on purpose to steer your money to his big donor elite.
From groceries to gas, Americans say they’re spending more under Trump
A majority of Americans blame President Donald Trump for rising prices and inflation, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
November 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Today, Trump breaks his own record for the longest shutdown in American history.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
600,000+ Tennesseans rely on the Affordable Care Act for health insurance.

While Republicans fail their own constituents, we’ll keep fighting for them.
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
On day 36 of the shutdown, this is why Democrats continue to fight.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM