Terri Burns

@RepTerriSewell We would not be having this discussion if congress represented ALL of their constituents in their district rather than just their party. You have done nothing for southern Clarke county.

My statement on Governor Ivey's decision to call a special session of the Alabama Legislature to dilute the power of Black voters.

@FoxNews ALL news organizations have tremendous power to influence. They need to maintain a moral compass AND be responsible otherwise we will lose the first amendment.

BREAKING: First Lady Melania Trump slams Jimmy Kimmel’s “hateful and violent rhetoric” after airing a segment calling her an ‘expectant widow’, demanding ABC 'take a stand' on the late-night host’s behavior: "A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him." "Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community."

@HaroldFordJr @TheFive Harold. Get the economy back on track and get jobs back to the United States for the middle class. This will enable gdp numbers grow towards 4% and we can grow out of debt-

Always good to be back around the table @TheFive foxnews.com/video/63931125…

@FoxNews Good grief…..don’t you have anything better to do. American people are smarter than you think. If I had a reliable source of raw milk , I would get it immediately and the source is not grocery stores, but from the dairies themselves. That would cut the cost significantly..

Crying over raw milk... Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro presses RFK Jr. during a congressional hearing about the HHS secretary's stance on raw milk: “If I were the head of HHS, I would by God say, 'Don’t take raw milk — it’s dangerous to your health!'”

@SenKatieBritt What percentage of these people are on govt programs?

This is dead on arrival in the Senate. Temporary Protected Status is just that: temporary. Beyond that, 91% of all Haitian TPS holders entered the country illegally. In the last election, the American people rejected mass migration policies that effectively grant amnesty to illegal aliens. It’s past time to put our own citizens FIRST.

@SenWarren How about paying down debt?

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

@CBSNews Right now I do not trust the senate or the house to do their jobs- either party. One of these days maybe they will support Americans over their own party line.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) says one of her main concerns about the conflict in Iran is that President Trump "has actually launched a forever war." "The Constitution is very clear. Only Congress has the power to declare war, so they need to come to us," she says. "And that's what these war powers resolutions are doing, is, again, over and over again, we're using the tools of the Senate to stop anything from happening until we get an answer for the American people."

@JonathanTurley When our congress fails to support what truly their constituents want over party lines, this is the result. It is truly pathetic. How can I explain it to my grandchildren.

...Walkinshaw told CNN: "I think the President is going to start to feel a lot of pressure as we head into that spring break travel season” and he hopes that will “create a breakthrough for a deal”...

Shortly after his colleague confirmed that the shutdown is about defunding ICE, x.com/JonathanTurley…, Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) indicated on Friday that he is welcoming the chaos and "pain" caused to citizens at the airports as leverage for a deal...

@RepTerriSewell Why should it be party affiliated. Why don’t you vote based on what your district wants?

The TSA workers who keep our skies safe should continue to be paid. I support legislation that would fully fund TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and other non-ICE agencies while Democrats stand against the reckless actions of Trump’s ICE agents. If Republicans are serious about keeping Americans safe, they should support our legislation too!

@SenKatieBritt I’m beginning to think that we have no leadership in congress - the house or senate. Will someone please take the lead and end this ridiculous govt shutdown. Just get it done.

From our farmers and cattlemen to producers and foresters, Alabama agriculture feeds our families, fuels our economy, and sustains communities across our state. I’m deeply grateful for the hardworking men and women who make it all possible.

@stevenfiorillo @guypbenson Very well said and summarized.

As a lifelong, taxpaying New Yorker, I am extremely worried about the ramifications of the estate tax proposal on New Yorkers if it gets signed into law. I want to be clear up front; this isn't about politics for me. I'm not fighting for the billionaire class, and I'm certainly not one of them. What I am is someone who understands basic math, economics, and business, who has watched what happens when states push tax policy past the breaking point. Here's what's on the table right now: a proposal to reduce New York’s estate tax exemption from $7.1 million down to $750,000, an 89% cut while increasing the top rate from 16% all the way to 50%. This is embedded within a batch of revenue ideas sent up to Albany to try and plug a $5.4 billion hole in the city budget. I want to discuss who this estate tax actually hits, because it’s certainly not the ultra-rich. The ultra-rich weren’t exempt as only the first $7.1 million avoided estate taxes. A $750,000 threshold in the New York metro area is not reasonable. The median home price in New York City hit roughly $809,000. In Nassau County you're looking at $820,000. Suffolk County sits around $675,000. Westchester is $754,000. If you bought a house in the city, Nassau, or Westchester and you spent 30 years paying off that mortgage like a responsible adult, congratulations, you're now above the estate tax threshold. What’s even better is that you hit the threshold before even factoring in your 401k, life insurance, savings, a family business, or other investments. This isn't a tax on the wealthy it’s a tax on a retired couple in Bayside who paid off their split-level. It's a tax on the family that runs a deli in Astoria and owns the building. When you force those families to come up with 50% of the value above $750,000 after someone dies, what do you think happens? They sell. They liquidate. The house goes, the business goes, and the generational wealth that took a lifetime to build disappears in a single tax event. Family businesses which are the backbone of employment in neighborhoods all over this city get gutted. According to the State Department of Taxation and Finance's own numbers New York's tax structure is incredibly top heavy as millionaires paid 44.6% of all personal income tax collected in 2024. The top 200,000 filers covered 51.9%. The bottom half of all earners paid 0.2%. Think about how fragile that makes us. You don't need a mass exodus. You need a few thousand people to change their mailing address to Palm Beach or Austin and the budget math falls apart. Here's the part that really gets me though. The biggest victims of "tax the rich" policies aren't the rich. The rich utilize their resources and leave once they have had enough because their resources make them mobile. The people who get crushed are the ones who stay such as teachers, firefighters, nurses, and the small business owner. They can’t simply pick up and go. The harsh reality is that when the wealthy leave and the tax base shrinks, the city still needs the same amount of money to run the subways, pay the cops and keep the lights on. So where does it come from? It comes from everyone left behind as they are forced to pay higher taxes, and higher fees. What may bother me more is the double taxation piece. The money in someone's estate didn't just appear from thin air. They earned it and paid income tax. They invested it and paid capital gains. They bought property with it and paid property taxes every single year. They bought things and paid sales tax. Every dollar in that estate has already been taxed multiple times over the course of a lifetime. Now when they die the state wants to take half of everything above $750,000? At what point does it stop being a tax and start being confiscation? That's a genuine question I have because if you work your whole life, play by every rule, pay every tax along the way, and the government still takes half when you die what exactly was the point of saving any of it? A $750,000 threshold doesn't catch billionaires it catches the middle class. It catches people who were never wealthy, they were just disciplined. They bought a house, they didn't sell it, they put money away for retirement, and they wanted to leave something for their kids. Punishing that with a 50% tax rate sends a very specific message: the state believes your assets belong to it first and your family second. I don't care where you fall politically that should bother you. I'll say this very simply. When you tax people to the point where they feel targeted, they leave. When they leave the burden falls on everyone who can't. When that burden gets heavy enough, more people figure out a way to go. That's not theory, that's exactly what IRS data and Census numbers have been showing us for half a decade straight. New York is standing at a fork in the road right now. One direction is more punitive taxation with an increasing dependence on a shrinking pool of high earners who increasingly have one foot out the door. The other direction is putting forward competitive tax policy, fiscal discipline, and creating an environment where building wealth and creating jobs isn't treated like something the government needs to punish. I know which path leads somewhere good. I just hope the people making the decisions figure it out before there's nobody left to tax. @amitisinvesting @BillAckman @chamath @patrickbetdavid @PBDsPodcast

The last 5 years are catching up to everyone. Quite honestly to significantly change the economy we need good paying jobs or a significant recession to eliminate the horrible inflation over the past 5 years. The latter isn’t good and the former will happen with Trump policy within 2-3 years. In addition, we need to fix medical insurance issues and really focus on elliminating fraud and inefficiencies in govt. the American people need to work!!!

Very important read. This is not a good sign wsj.com/personal-finan…

@GunnelsWarren How about we bring back manufacturing jobs so people can work for a living and support themselves.

If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $834 billion that he's worth today. He'd still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.

Sure. I understand. However, not only is Trump trying to eliminate trade deficit, but more importantly he is using tariffs as a negotiating tool to get other countries (and our investors) to manufacture in the US. In order to get rid of this “K” economy, we have got to get good paying jobs back in the US!!!!!!

If I was king for a day, I would offer zero U.S. tariffs on goods from other countries if they would levy zero tariffs on our goods sold to them. Trade is more complicated than that, and we live in the real world, but that should be the ideal.

@RealJamesWoods I almost feel sorry for her ………………..not

Doesn’t she have handlers to stop drunk midnight shit-posting?

@MZHemingway @whignewtons I used to have my HS students watch and we would have discussions on the key points. I don’t do that anymore because of the poor example that congress sets (both sides) during the speech.

@whignewtons It has become such a political event in recent decades that I genuinely don’t mind when anyone skips.

No. I hope all 9 attend.

@Liathetrader @JohnLeFevre Ladies- there is nothing holding us back but ourselves.

You don’t get a chance as a woman. It’s changing very slowly, but women didn’t get funding or support and weren’t allowed to do any of this. If they even tried, they were destroyed. Essentially, they’re trying to do it again now—immediately when we get a bit more empowered, men step on us. My mother didn’t even get support from her dad to go to university. “Women” were supposed to have kids and not study—and that’s just one generation before me! So calm down, John. If we keep going at this speed, it will be a whole different story in 100 years, but you and I will be dead by then to see it.

Why are zero women in the top 10 chess players ever? Why are ~95% of inventors, founders, and Nobel Prize winners men? Why are ~90% of prisoners and ~75% of homeless men? Same reason: men have greater variability in everything - IQ, aggression, risk appetite, ambition, trust, occupational interest, etc. Chart: @DavidMaywald

You know what!!! I did not see any significant increase in prices due to tariffs. The only price increases I have seen is from inflation caused by the govt both by giving people money after COVID, poor energy policy, and a lousy medical system. Long term, Trump needs to be able to use tariffs as a bargaining tool to get manufacturing back in the states so we can build up our middle class with good paying jobs!!!!! Why can’t you see that!! You know as well as I do that inflation is cumulative and does not go away unless there are components of the supply chain that become cheaper ( like energy) or we have a recession or if we are lucky enough to get competition going for the product. There is no way that congress/ govt can handle the tariffs. You can’t fix our healthcare, get us out of debt, have legal and clean elections and keep sewage out of our rivers.

@lsferguson Americans will face one less tax on the goods they purchase and gain important protection against a future socialist-inspired president attempting to impose taxes by emergency declaration, whether in the name of climate policy or any other political fad.

Rand Paul is celebrating the Supreme Court ruling on President Trump's tariffs

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🚨BREAKING: Retired Marine Joey Jones just NAILED IT on VOTER ID: "If you can't handle proving you're a citizen...I don't give a D*MN if you don't vote again, because I don't CARE what you have to say!" “If that’s mean or elitist, I really don’t care! And if you’re a politician and those are the people you’re advocating for, I really hope you lose too!" “If you’re going to be in the greatest and most prosperous country in the world, you should want to take part in it and give a little to do it." "JFK said ‘don’t ask what your country can do but ask what you can do for your country’: You can find your birth certificate and go get a free ID to vote. That is what you can do for your country!" 🇺🇸 PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT. Do you firmly support this? A. Huge Yes B. No IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!! MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏

@JesseBWatters Democrats on the middle class: tax the rich and give the money to middle class. Republicans: create more living wage jobs so that the middle class can help themselves….

NEW: Gavin Newsom and AOC just EMBARASSED THEMSELVES in MUNICH 🤣 Newsom MIMICKED AL GORE… “PEOPLE ARE BURNING UP” 🔥 AOC COPIED KAMALA… with HUGE WORD SALADS 🥗 Meanwhile, UNEMPLOYED KAMALA was CAUGHT on CAMERA… HANGING OUT at a BAR 🍺 🤣 Gavin, AOC, and Kamala better WATCH OUT— Stephen A Smith might be PLANNING a 2028 RUN 🔥