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One of its two major parties is centered on a Big Lie that threatens to blow up the nation, figuratively if not literally.

“I don’t know any part of this country where someone can survive on $7.25.”

With Vice President Kamala Harris now serving as the tie-breaking vote, Senate Democrats can and must abolish the filibuster.

The bill includes a $15 minimum wage increase, an extension of unemployment insurance, survival checks, and $20 billion for a national vaccination program.

“The current minimum wage, federally, is $7.25. Now, you can’t live on that.”

It is the first veto override of Trump's presidency.

“You have to be all sorts of twisted to think ‘making poor people more comfortable’ is a bad thing.”

"One major difference between GOP and Dems is that [Republicans] leverage their right flank to gain policy concessions and generate enthusiasm, while Dems lock their left flank in the basement [because] they think that will make Republicans be nicer to them."

"Trump is privately demanding $2,000 stimulus checks. McConnell is quietly fretting over Georgia. Democrats control the leverage, they should demand larger stimulus in the package being negotiated."

“It makes no sense that we would go back to the politics that produced Trump in the first place.”