No. 308✳ Arlington, Va.✳ Wednesday, July 29, 2026✳ No algorithms, no ads✳ About
Senate Republicans have now—on 11 separate occasions—blocked bills to fund TSA, FEMA, CISA, Coast Guard, and other important DHS functions, and they’ve blocked pay for TSA 8 times in a row.
I forgot to celebrate a year without Facebook! 🎉
Pritzker is probably already cooked, I'm not convinced he'll be able to assemble the Biden coalition if he can't credibly convince left-wing voters that he stands against Israel's efforts to remove the Palestinian people from their historic homeland, and their military campaign that has resulted in tens, possibly hundreds, of thousands of deaths and the destruction of Gaza.
“What we need to do is, we need to get the DHS issues resolved, we need to get the TSA agents paid.”
— Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska
We must protect our children and ourselves from products whose purpose is not to connect us with the people we care about, and who care about us, but to addict us and manipulate our behavior.
3:44 p.m. By a vote of 47-37, the Senate did not invoke cloture on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 7147, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026, upon reconsideration.
Democratic Senator Fetterman voted in favor.
Senators not voting: Britt, Coons, Daines, Fischer, Gallego, Kaine, Kelly, Klobuchar, Paul, Schiff, Shaheen, Sheehy, Smith, Tuberville, Whitehouse, and Wicker.
