Senator Chris Murphy

I mean, part of the reason that I argued that we should be willing to vote against that Republican continuing resolution was to show that we are not going to be complicit with Republicans on a budget that they wrote without any Democratic input.

The reason why I thought we all should have skipped the State of the Union speech is because that would have shown a level of seriousness about not wanting to legitimize his corruption and theft. And you're also probably right that we're going to have to be clearer about the legal consequences, you know, should somebody who's on the level eventually get into the DOJ

The reason why I thought we all should have skipped the State of the Union speech is because that would have shown a level of seriousness about not wanting to legitimize his corruption and theft. And you're also probably right that we're going to have to be clearer about the legal consequences, you know, should somebody who's on the level eventually get into the DOJ

The reason why I thought we all should have skipped the State of the Union speech is because that would have shown a level of seriousness about not wanting to legitimize his corruption and theft. And you're also probably right that we're going to have to be clearer about the legal consequences, you know, should somebody who's on the level eventually get into the DOJ

for the people who are blatantly violating the law.

for the people who are blatantly violating the law.

for the people who are blatantly violating the law.

I think sometimes people expect a little bit too much of the opposition party, but I think if we were engaging in tactics that were a little tougher and had, frankly, a little bit more potential downside for Democrats, that would cause people out in the public to be more willing to engage in riskier behavior themselves or institutions to engage in more riskier behavior as they're trying to stand up a response to Trump's extortion campaign.

I think sometimes people expect a little bit too much of the opposition party, but I think if we were engaging in tactics that were a little tougher and had, frankly, a little bit more potential downside for Democrats, that would cause people out in the public to be more willing to engage in riskier behavior themselves or institutions to engage in more riskier behavior as they're trying to stand up a response to Trump's extortion campaign.

I think sometimes people expect a little bit too much of the opposition party, but I think if we were engaging in tactics that were a little tougher and had, frankly, a little bit more potential downside for Democrats, that would cause people out in the public to be more willing to engage in riskier behavior themselves or institutions to engage in more riskier behavior as they're trying to stand up a response to Trump's extortion campaign.

Well, the plan has to be to not be distracted, and that's tough. But, you know, we are being gift-wrapped a piece of legislation that tells the entire story about the Trump administration's priorities. And as you mentioned, it's a pretty simple story. You're talking about throwing millions of people off of their health care, potentially tens of millions of people off their health care, Medicaid,

Well, the plan has to be to not be distracted, and that's tough. But, you know, we are being gift-wrapped a piece of legislation that tells the entire story about the Trump administration's priorities. And as you mentioned, it's a pretty simple story. You're talking about throwing millions of people off of their health care, potentially tens of millions of people off their health care, Medicaid,

Well, the plan has to be to not be distracted, and that's tough. But, you know, we are being gift-wrapped a piece of legislation that tells the entire story about the Trump administration's priorities. And as you mentioned, it's a pretty simple story. You're talking about throwing millions of people off of their health care, potentially tens of millions of people off their health care, Medicaid,

insures 24% of Americans in order to finance a massive tax cut for the richest Americans. It's about a trillion dollars in cuts to child nutrition programs and Medicaid and a trillion dollars of tax cuts for the richest 1%. And so that's a story we need to tell over and over and over again. And the best result here is, frankly, to stop it, from ever becoming law.

insures 24% of Americans in order to finance a massive tax cut for the richest Americans. It's about a trillion dollars in cuts to child nutrition programs and Medicaid and a trillion dollars of tax cuts for the richest 1%. And so that's a story we need to tell over and over and over again. And the best result here is, frankly, to stop it, from ever becoming law.

insures 24% of Americans in order to finance a massive tax cut for the richest Americans. It's about a trillion dollars in cuts to child nutrition programs and Medicaid and a trillion dollars of tax cuts for the richest 1%. And so that's a story we need to tell over and over and over again. And the best result here is, frankly, to stop it, from ever becoming law.

And I think we have a really good chance of doing that. Nobody thought that we were going to be able to stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act in 2017, but we did. But they still paid a price for it. They got walloped in the midterms because people didn't really care that it didn't pass.

And I think we have a really good chance of doing that. Nobody thought that we were going to be able to stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act in 2017, but we did. But they still paid a price for it. They got walloped in the midterms because people didn't really care that it didn't pass.

And I think we have a really good chance of doing that. Nobody thought that we were going to be able to stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act in 2017, but we did. But they still paid a price for it. They got walloped in the midterms because people didn't really care that it didn't pass.

They just saw loud and clear what their values were, which was to, at the time, throw 20 million people off their health care. So we need to dual track this, try to kill this bill, but also message it in a way that even if it disappears, they have to own the space. And I think it's OK to still talk about the assault on democracy because I would argue it's all the same story.