Rep. James Walkinshaw
@Rep_Walkinshaw
Dad. Husband. VA-11 Congressman.
Standing up for federal workers. Holding government accountable.
@OversightDems | @HomelandDems
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Republicans want you to think they’re banning insider trading. They’re not.
Their bill leaves loopholes for politicians and the President while slipping in SAVE Act-style voter suppression.
If they were serious, they’d bring a clean stock trading ban to the floor.
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SORKIN: Do you think a ban on stock and insider trading should extend to the White House? We just learned about the teleprompter operator that works for the president being involved
SCALISE: You know, they have their own policies. We're trying to get our own policies in the House.
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If affordability is the biggest issue facing Americans, you'd think Republicans' budget would try to lower costs.
It doesn't.
47 pages. 6,500+ words. Not one word on bringing down grocery or gas prices.
But plenty of money for Trump's reckless war in Iran.
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Hegseth admitted Trump’s Iran war has burned through $37.5 billion in taxpayer funds.
That could cover a full school year of free lunches for 30 million children. Or a full year of child care for nearly 2 million kids.
Trump finds money for war while families get excuses.
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Durbin: Do you have a new estimate about what the war has cost us so far in this, the fifth month of the first year of this war in Iran?
Hegseth: Senator, the estimate we have as of today is 37.5 billion.
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Trump’s trade war is back, & your wallet will take the hit.
His new 50% tariffs on Canada mean costlier groceries, pricier furniture, & rising building costs that push home prices even higher.
Canada doesn’t pay this tax. You do.
Same failed strategy. Americans pay the price.
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Trump slapped 50% tariffs on Canadian goods to satisfy his own ego.
But Trump won’t pay the price. American families will.
A tariff is a tax, and families already struggling with high costs cannot afford another Trump tax.
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The Trump admin is attempting to erase the history of Black Americans and Native American heroes.
Now it has the nerve to accuse the Smithsonian of rewriting American history.
The people reaching for a big orange eraser to wipe away American history are in Trump’s White House.
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Trump stripped job protections from thousands of career federal workers, clearing the way to replace them with political loyalists.
@SenTimKaine & I led 51 colleagues demanding answers from the White House.
Americans deserve a civil service that works for them, not for Trump.
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Republicans voted to rip away Americans' health care for one reason: to hand another tax break to the wealthy.
While they catered to the wealthy and well-connected, you got higher costs.
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This week, I joined the Kimmy Duong Foundation for its annual award ceremony at George Mason University to celebrate this year’s scholarship recipients and their academic achievements.
The Foundation’s work expands meaningful opportunity across our region, and I encouraged each student to pay it forward by serving others and helping open doors for those who follow.
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Trump never planned to “drain the swamp,” because he IS the swamp.
He promised to bring down costs for hardworking Americans. Instead, he’s $4 billion richer — & his DOJ still hides millions of files from the American people.
Millions of voters are now seeing the con man for who he really is.
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Todd Blanche says there are no investigative leads left in the Epstein case. That simply isn't true.
The FBI never questioned key figures tied to Epstein, and survivors continue to say critical records remain missing.
He is unfit to lead the DOJ.
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Trump promised his war with Iran would be “wrapped up soon.”
Instead, he’s dragging us deeper into conflict while gas prices hit $4 a gallon again.
You are paying the price for his recklessness every time you fill up.
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Killing an innocent mother of three & an ICU nurse can’t be dismissed as “not a perfect operation.”
It’s a deadly failure of leadership.
Those responsible may evade accountability today, but they won’t forever.
They’ll answer for it, whether in this Congress or the next.
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REPORTER: You just said that in Minnesota what happened wasn't a mistake, with the shootings--
HOMAN: I said from day one it was not a perfect operation. I see a lot of people out there saying, 'We surrendered in Minnesota.' No we didn't.
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Great speaking with this year’s congressional interns about my path to Congress, the importance of public service, and the work that goes into serving our communities.
The next generation of public servants gives me a lot of hope for the future.
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Trump's DOGE chainsaw isn't stopping with one agency. It's now aimed at TSA.
The Trump admin wants to eliminate thousands of TSO positions and replace many of them with private contractors.
You don't make America safer by hollowing out the workforce that protects it.
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Todd Blanche turned his back on survivors demanding transparency and accountability.
Instead of delivering answers, he chose the cover-up.
The Senate must reject his nomination. A vote for Blanche is a vote for the cover-up.
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Trump’s speech last week was strange, mostly him bullying Republicans into passing the SAVE Act, the most restrictive anti-voter bill ever.
He isn’t securing elections.
He’s gutted CISA, cut the workers who protected elections, & is trying to make it harder for you to vote.
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You can’t oversee the Epstein files cover-up, ignore survivors for months, then expect America to trust you as Attorney General.
Blanche met with survivors to try & win confirmation votes. They said he treated their pain like a “check-the-box” exercise.
He is unfit to serve.
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Secretary Mullin is lying about noncitizens voting to appease Trump.
The conservative Heritage Foundation calls noncitizen voting “vanishingly rare.”
Mullin’s “proof” is a database never built to check voters, blocked by a judge for wrongly flagging citizens as noncitizens.
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Since returning to office, Trump has worked to bend our election systems to his own political interests.
He gutted CISA, the agency responsible for defending elections from cyberattacks and foreign interference.
Trump is laying the groundwork for election meddling in November.
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