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BREAKING: GENIUS! Sen. Chris Van Hollen suggests restoring Affordable Care Act subsidies by gutting ICE’s bloated $200 billion in funding. Two birds, one stone… “We need to respond to the economic pain people are feeling. And that means a commitment, for example, to immediately pass legislation to make sure that none of us pay one dime, not one in higher electric costs, to build data centers for the richest AI companies on the planet,” Van Hollen said on “Pod Save America.” “It means dealing with healthcare,” he continued. “And I mean, yes, of course, we need to reverse the damage the Trump administration has done with respect to their cuts to Medicaid. And by the way, we should claw back the approximately $200 billion in ICE funding that they banked last time.” He also called for restoring the ACA subsidies that Republicans refused to extend in 2025. We can’t think of a more elegant solution to this. Democrats are determined to undo Trump’s healthcare cuts and stem the deluge of financial stress, suffering, and death that those cuts are inflicting on the American people. At the same time, we must abolish ICE. It’s a rogue paramilitary organization whose masked agents are terrorizing and murdering people in the streets. They’re trampling civil liberties and their detention centers are rife with sexual abuse. The last thing they deserve is another dollar of funding from taxpayers. That money should go towards saving lives, not ending them. “But on healthcare, we need to go beyond that. We need to make sure that we deal with the system where premiums are going up and co-pays are going up and up and up,” added Van Hollen. “I ultimately believe we need to get to Medicare for All, but we certainly need to begin moving toward a public option. And finally, political corruption, because if you look at the results, it was interesting. If you look at what was on people's mind, number one was the economy and costs, but protecting our democracy was right up there. And these things are connected.” There are growing calls among the Democratic base for Van Hollen to contest Chuck Schumer for the Senate Majority Leadership to empower a more progressive voice after the blue tsunami. What do you think? Please ❤️ and share if you’re a proud supporter of Chris Van Hollen!

BREAKING: MAN OF THE PEOPLE! Senator-elect Troy Jackson shows up to Washington wearing an $89 suit from Target — a far cry from the millionaire Republican he defeated. Change is finally coming to the capital... "Hello, DC. Let's get to work. 🇺🇸," Jackson, a fifth-generation Maine logger who unseated Susan Collins last Tuesday, wrote on X. Attached to the tweet was a photo of Jackson beaming while holding up a Senate binder. He was dressed in a suit and eagle-eyed commentators quickly noticed the label. Internet sleuths did some digging and discovered that it was a Haggar men's suit, sold for $89.99 at Target. During the campaign, Collins shamefully attacked Jackson for being a working class man, and mockingly ran an ad which asserted that working in the Senate is not the same as "buying a cord of wood." Obviously, he got the last laugh. Jackson is a true success story. He started working as a logger when he was 19 and spent years grinding out brutal 80-hour work weeks. He only got involved in politics because he saw it as the only way to fight for better pay for loggers. And while the price of his suit is a relatively minor detail, it does point to a sea change with this incoming Congress. Democrats elected a working class populist, not because he had the money for fancy clothes, but because his policies spoke to them. Senator-elect Jackson is advocating for strengthening unions, lowering healthcare and housing costs, protecting working families, and fighting corporate influence in Washington. At a time when a billionaire pedophile and his oligarch buddies are using the White House to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of the country, it's incredibly refreshing to have someone like Jackson stepping into the fray. Please ❤️ and share if you think we need more working-class senators!