Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin

Exciting news: Today I voted to pass a bipartisan housing bill to make it easier to build housing, simpler for our neighbors to buy a house and harder for the private equity firms to stockpile single-family homes. This is a promising step towards making housing more affordable for our people. I’m grateful to @RepMaxineWaters and @SenWarren for seeing this bill through.

Today is Primary Election Day in many places across America, including the great state of Maryland. To strengthen our democracy and guard our freedom, we need everyone to get out and make their voices heard. Check resources from your local board of elections to find your polling location. Happy voting!

Wishing a Happy Father’s Day to all the awesome Dads, step-Dads, grandfathers, and father figures in MD-08 and beyond! Thank you for loving and nurturing your families, enriching our communities and showing up every day with care, wisdom and strength.

This week's MD-08 Local Heroes are Montgomery Blair HS 10th graders Mira Sylvan, Eleanor Hoffmann and Dylan Ward and their teacher-advisor, Zack Wilson. These three talented students won Third Place in the High School Eastern Division of the 2026 C-SPAN StudentCam documentary competition. Their feature, entitled "The Human Cost of the Bureaucracy Chainsaw," provides a compelling account of the Trump Administration’s demolition of the civil service and the savage attacks that took place against thousands of dedicated federal workers. youtube.com/watch?v=9MhkLy…

This Juneteenth, we remember the news of emancipation reaching America’s last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas and the continued struggle for a more perfect union. As MAGA Republicans in the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court carve up the Voting Rights Act, we must fight back creatively for freedom and democracy for all.

Congress never voted to bulldoze the White House or for a dollar to build Trump’s golden Ballroom for the Epstein class (or anyone else). But now we learn that Trump’s bad architecture obsession is costing us all $600 million. Turn your illegal Qatari jet over to the people and we’ll sell it for $400 million and we’ll take the rest out of other illegal emoluments and slush funds, including the $1.776 billion fund for insurrectionists, and the Board of Peace, another unauthorized Trump fund bankrolled by money misallocated from the State Department.

MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch

a week ago

New documents obtained by The Washington Post show the price to build the ballroom has ballooned to $600 million, up from the initial $200 million estimate, with more than half expected to be paid by U.S. taxpayers. wapo.st/4vOuwPD

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This Immigrant Heritage Month, we celebrate successive generations of hardworking immigrants who have helped build Maryland and our nation. Let’s unite to honor our history and to oppose ICE and Border Patrol’s lawless and chaotic raids that have terrorized immigrants and our communities.

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel may have a 'personal slush fund' of taxpayer dollars to pay loyalist agents, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin. Raskin is demanding documents from Patel — citing claims that $8,000 payments are made to agents who carry out "unlawful partisan and personal orders." ms.now/news/kash-pate…

A literal coverup, to add to all the others. Nobody’s fooled. Trump and his team got caught vandalizing federal property by posting graffiti with his name on the Kennedy Center and a judge shut them down. It will be a beautiful day when the name of the Kennedy Center is restored to visibility. And the vandal should pay for all the repair work—not the taxpayers.

Jim Acosta @Acosta

a week ago

Kennedy Center Update: Trump has left his tarp up. Looks like he is still sulking over his name being removed.

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Payments of nearly $8,000 per pay period allegedly went to inner-circle FBI agents, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin’s investigation.

Donald Trump converted the White House into a money-making operation for himself, his family, and his closest advisors and biggest campaign donors. It's endless corrupt self-enrichment from a president who says he doesn't "think about Americans' financial situation.” No kidding.

🚨BREAKING: Ranking Members @RepRaskin and @RepRobertGarcia issue statement slamming Todd Blanche's BOP for failing to answer basic questions regarding the Committees' probe into Ghislaine Maxwell’s unprecedented prison transfer and preferential treatment, following a Committee staff visit to the Texas facility today: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/p…

Judiciary Democrats have uncovered that FBI Director Kash Patel directed over $1 MILLION in unlawful taxpayer-funded bonuses to a small group of MAGA agents and members of Patel’s personal security detail.

Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW

a week ago

Exclusive: Kash Patel may be deploying a “slush fund” of taxpayer dollars to reward loyalist agents and members of his security detail ms.now/news/kash-pate…

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This Gun Violence Awareness Month, we rededicate ourselves to ending this public health emergency ravaging our people. We stand in solidarity with survivors and grieving families. Congress must ACT NOW to pass popular and commonsense gun safety reforms to enforce the basic social contract.

Congress must permanently defund President Trump's corrupt $1.8 billion settlement with himself, a complete fraud on the court and on our country. Not one dollar of taxpayer money can go to insurrectionists, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Read Section IV of the 14th Amendment and the Domestic Emoluments Clause, Mr. President. You get nothing beyond your salary from the taxpayers, much less for violent insurrection.

Ahead of Juneteenth, this week's Local Heroes are sisters Teresa Gasaway-Gleaton and LaTrice Gasaway-Johnson. Along with their big sister LaTisha, they are the magnificent forces behind the Scotland Juneteenth Heritage Festival in MoCo. Listen to the splendid events they have planned for this year's celebration. youtube.com/watch?v=97VFy1…

After the 2020 election, banks and credit card issuers estimated that fraud cases involving WinRed were as much as 3% of their total national fraud workload—more than 800 cases. MAGA's legislative harassment of, and attempts to prosecute, ActBlue are a confession and self-indictment of WinRed's continuing serious fraud against small Republican donors. If they treat their own donors like that—confiscating their credit cards and signing them up for monthly contributions without their consent—what would they do to the rest of us? Perhaps pick our pockets for a $1.776 billion political slush fund.

.@RepRaskin tells @LACaldwellDC the president “cannot act as the legislature” and appropriate $1.776 billion for “his political foot soldiers in MAGA and the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and the 3 Percenters.” Watch on 535.news

News flash, Mr. President! We appreciate your candor in admitting you “love inflation” and don’t think about other Americans’ “financial situation,” but we hate inflation and can’t stand your illegal tariffs, taxes and wars. We’re sick of your economy for oligarchs!

Acyn @Acyn

2 weeks ago

Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning? Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.

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Judiciary Republicans called a hearing without bringing the facts. We're still waiting for their witnesses to provide all the evidence about alleged fraud and criminality at the Southern Poverty Law Center they are recklessly throwing around. So far, they’ve shown nothing. Just another political hit job, another waste of time.