U.S. Senator, Washington state | @SenateApprops Vice Chair | Working every day to help people and solve problems
WA & DC
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Trump promised again and again his ballroom wouldn't cost taxpayers a dime, and now he's stealing $400 million of your tax dollars.
That's illegal. Congress needs answers.
Scoop: Sens. Patty Murray & Chris Murphy are asking GAO to investigate the Trump administration's use of Secret Service funds from big, beautiful bill for the East Wing ballroom, alleging it's illegal.
They sent GAO a letter yesterday.
More @MSNOWNews:
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Happy Pride Seattle!
Let's keep fighting to ensure equal protection under the law, no matter who you love or how you identify.
Be proud, have fun, and stay safe. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Just remember: when Trump said he "lifted" families off of SNAP—he really means he cut them out of it.
Now over 800,000 kids—AT LEAST—aren’t getting the help they need.
🚨New data: In the 8 months after H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by 4+ million (-10%) nationwide.
In just the 13 states with available data, 800,000+ fewer kids are receiving SNAP.
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ALT Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to March 2026. Between H.R. 1's enactment in July 2025 and March 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4 million.
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Republicans want women to be silent about the suffering happening under GOP abortion bans.
I will never stop uplifting the voices of women. We have to make sure their stories are impossible to ignore.
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Our light rail is breaking records! 🏆⚽️
House Republicans wanted to defund public transit funding entirely–I didn’t let them. Let’s keep building!
The combo of the USA-Australia soccer match, and a sold-out Mariners game, helped push passenger counts to 280,000 on Friday. seattletimes.com/seattle-new…
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The biggest form of theft in America?
Corporate wage theft.
Workers are robbed of an estimated $50 BILLION EVERY YEAR! And Trump's answer has been to give the green light for employers to steal from workers—so I've got a bill to make sure workers get the pay they've earned.
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Inflation has surged to its highest level in years. Thanks to Trump's tariffs and war.
This President is intentionally making life harder and more expensive for Americans.
All while spending your taxpayer dollars on vanity projects and war.
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Trump wants the Postal Service to REFUSE to mail ballots if states don't bow down to Trump and hand over their voter rolls.
Insane and unconstitutional.
That's exactly why a federal judge just BLOCKED Trump's EO attacking vote by mail. I’ll keep fighting to protect our democracy. 🇺🇸
PETERS: Yes or no, if a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule?
POSTMASTER GENERAL STEINER: No.
PETERS: So the proposed rule basically coerces states to hand over their absentee voter rolls or face the consequences of not being able to vote by mail
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Does Donald Trump hate nurses? Sure feels like it since he made sure nursing is no longer categorized as a “professional degree.”
That makes it so nurses have LESS access to federal student aid.
I'm voting to OVERTURN this asinine policy.
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Far-right Republicans and anti-abortion activists aren't even trying to HIDE their extremism—they want to ARREST women for getting an abortion.
This is beyond absurd and cruel, and America's pro-choice majority MUST understand what's at stake. nytimes.com/2026/06/24/us/po…
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Today marks four years since Republicans ripped away the national right to abortion.
Every single Republican in the Senate helped enable this new and horrifying reality.
I'm not going to let Americans forget.
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Kaitlyn’s heartbreaking story is not the exception; it’s the reality Republican abortion bans have created.
Women deserve better.
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I will fight every day to lift up women’s voices and keep up the fight for abortion rights.
We will never be quiet.
We will never forget.
And we will never accept Republicans’ deadly new status quo.
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I will not let Republicans off the hook for the pain they have caused and the chaos they have unleashed by overturning Roe v. Wade.
You voted to confirm Trump’s SCOTUS nominees? You own this chaos and suffering.
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Abortion bans kill women.
More from @alexismcgill at today’s forum to hold Republicans accountable for the chaos and pain they have unleashed on American women.
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Texas’s abortion ban forced Samantha to carry a very wanted, but non-viable pregnancy to term–denying her the health care she needed and putting her life in danger.
This is the reality Republicans created.
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Senator Patty Murray retweeted
Four years after the Dobbs decision—one of the greatest setbacks for women in US history—the GOP is still not done attacking reproductive rights.
That's why we held a spotlight forum to shine a light on the consequences this decision has had on people across the country.
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"Four years after Dobbs, people still need abortions. They are still getting abortions. The difference is that they now have to travel farther, wait longer, spend more money, and overcome more obstacles to obtain the same health care."
@ChiAbortionFund's Megan Jeyifo
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From pushing for dangerous fetal personhood bills to denying lifesaving care to pregnant women, anti-abortion Republicans show every single day that overturning Roe was never going to be enough.
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