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I've endorsed my partner in the Senate, Ed Markey.

You know, Ed is a terrific fighter.

I was just with him at our No Kings rally in Massachusetts on Saturday, and he was out there raising the troops because Ed fights from the heart.

He is a good man, and I am honored to be his partner in the United States Senate.

Christopher Moynihan texted threats, terroristic threats, they say, against Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, texting, quote, even if I am hated, he must be eliminated.

I will kill him for the future about Jeffries.

Allegedly, Moynihan not only texted that, but knew that Jeffries was to appear yesterday at an event at the Economic Club of New York and noted that date and that event in the text thread.

Some of your Republican colleagues have proposed nuking the filibuster to force the government to reopen.

So we're hopeful that this will be the week when we break out of this and the Democrats come to their senses and decide to open up the government.

We're going to give them several opportunities, as you know, to do that.

We'll have another vote on the continuing resolution tomorrow, which is sitting at the desk of the Senate.

It can be sent down here to the White House, signed into law.

The government would open up immediately.

Well, Chris, I don't want to see the shutdown go on.

And that's why I, together with my Democratic colleagues in the Senate, have voted seven times now to reopen the government, but without giving Donald Trump that blank check.

He was doing a whole lot of damage to federal employees in the country even before the shutdown.

I mean, remember Elon Musk and his chainsaw.

And they did a huge amount of damage in their so-called big, beautiful bill, which was beautiful for billionaires, but not for others.

And when they extended the tax cuts for billionaires, the one tax cut that they did not extend was that that helps middle class Americans afford their health care.

They've left this ticking time bomb and we want to defuse it.