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This marks our last scheduled week of work in 2025 with only 5 days left to extend enhanced premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act before they expire and cause insurance premiums to skyrocket for millions of Americans.
Dear Friends,
I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving as we head into the closing month of 2025.
After 43 days, the longest federal government shutdown in American history has finally ended.
Republicans’ government shutdown continues, and time is running out to avoid a catastrophic hit to our health care system.
It’s been over three weeks since the Republicans shut down the government rather than address a health care crisis of their own making.
We remain in the midst of a federal government shutdown with no clear end in sight.
Speaker Mike Johnson canceled yet another week of votes.
After weeks of inaction from Congressional Republicans, funding for the federal government ran out at midnight on October 1st.
We have less than 72 hours before government funding runs out and we face a shutdown at midnight on October 1st. Thousands of federal workers who took DOGE’s offer of deferred resignation will come off payroll on September 30th.
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to James Currie, “our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” This sentiment was embodied in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, penned by George Mason.
Political violence reared its ugly head in America last week with the murder of Charlie Kirk at a Utah college debate event less than three months after the murder of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband. Just moments after Kirk was shot, we also witnessed another school shooting in Colorado.