The Trump Administration has turned the NEH into a slush fund for the president’s political agenda — and the communities across this country that rely on fair, competitive grants are the ones paying the price.

These abuses must be answered for.

They wiped out nearly every longstanding grant, fired the independent scholars who ensure integrity in the review process, and gutted the staff needed to run the NEH.

And once those guardrails were removed, they rammed through enormous handpicked awards that avoided any real scrutiny.

The Kennedy Center is a national treasure, and a living memorial to JFK. Trump is using it as a propaganda tool to feed his ego—and doing what he did to so many of his own businesses: slowly destroying it.

3️⃣ These are the same people who *illegally* denied SNAP benefits to 42 million Americans—*and* tried to fight several court rulings that went against them—during the shutdown.

They literally used food as a political weapon.

Spare us the crocodile tears (and the made-up numbers).

Air traffic controllers kept this country moving under impossible conditions.

The focus now needs to be rebuilding the pipeline, restoring the progress this administration inherited, and making sure the workforce is never again put at risk by political games.

TL;DR: We miss Pete Buttigieg! (3/3)

Let's be clear about how we got here. The Biden Administration and Secretary Buttigieg were rebuilding and expanding the controller workforce after years of shortages.

Trump and Secretary Duffy blew a hole in that progress—and then doubled down with threats, smears, and political pressure. (2/3)

Their blatant disregard for our cultural institutions—and the very idea of historical truth—is so alarming.

I will keep fighting to protect these vital spaces—and to stop this Administration from trying to force its political agenda (and its warped version of history) on our cultural institutions.

It is my sincere hope that, just as we are doing with the petition to release the Epstein files, we can get enough Republicans on board to pass these extensions—and bring much-needed relief to millions of Americans.

It became increasingly clear this week that Speaker Johnson will not put a clean ACA bill on the floor, regardless of the Senate’s handshake deal.

But this fight is far from over.

@housedemocrats.bsky.social have already filed a discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits for a full 3 yrs.

While it’s critical to end the shutdown and fund the government, this was not the way to do it. I am an emphatic no on this terrible bill.

This “deal” is going to be financially ruinous for thousands of Mainers—despite somehow managing to include provisions that will allow millions of dollars in cash payouts to Republican Senators.

President Trump and Republican leadership have proven that they’re willing to take drastic measures—including a historically long government shutdown and the first-ever illegal attempt to deny SNAP benefits to food insecure Americans—to avoid addressing this crisis.