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Senator, your ‘two‑cent’ wealth tax ignores how wealth actually exists in the real world. Most of what you want to tax is illiquid ownership in businesses, not piles of cash. Forcing founders and investors to liquidate or lever up just to pay an annual asset tax means less capital for hiring, expansion, and innovation – exactly the things that create future jobs for American workers. OECD and European experience show these wealth taxes are complex, raise less than promised, and come with high administrative costs and distortions, which means more money feeding bureaucracy and less funding truly productive activity. If you’re serious about opportunity, stop attacking paper wealth and start fixing the broken ways we tax income, capital gains, and corporate profits instead.

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.

Gavin Newsom is now blaming Elon Musk for “ceding the EV space to China,” but that completely ignores his own record. Newsom helped make California so hostile to business that Tesla moved its headquarters to Texas, while Musk continued building EVs, batteries, and charging infrastructure in the United States. At the same time, Newsom’s administration signed a nearly $1 billion no‑bid pandemic contract with Chinese EV maker BYD to produce masks, even though BYD initially failed to obtain federal N95 certification and had to amend the deal and refund part of California’s down payment. He then flew to China in 2023, toured Chinese EV plants, and promoted deeper cooperation with Chinese automakers and officials on electric‑vehicle expansion. So when Newsom accuses Musk of handing the EV future to China, it rings hollow coming from the guy who cut billion‑dollar deals with Chinese EV firms and courted them to expand their footprint while driving one of America’s most important EV companies out of his own state.

Gavin Newsom just said in an interview that Elon Musk is a huge disappointment for "ceding the EV space to China." Newsom called China's expansion in the EV market a national security issue and said that he really fears it. Newsom is such a fraud. During the pandemic Newsom awarded a one billion dollar, no bid contract to China EV manufacturer BYD to make masks, even though the company had never manufactured masks or any health care supplies before. Newsom even paid them $500 million up front to help them get started before ultimately extending the contract past a billion dollars. In 2023 Newsom flew to China and met with BYD to discuss bringing their cars into the states. Newsom: "We've got to get these in the states."

In the richest nation on Earth, the federal government’s job is not to build ever‑bigger programs and decide who pays for them; it’s to create a fair, non‑predatory framework where free people and local communities can solve problems themselves. Modern politics has flipped that on its head: instead of protecting us from coercion, Washington uses its power to tax, borrow, and inflate to micromanage daily life and buy relevance for legislators. If some Americans want to join voluntary communities that pool resources for child care or anything else, they should be free to do that—but on the federal level, turning every good intention into a national entitlement paid for with other people’s money is exactly what government was never supposed to be.

In the richest nation on Earth, child care shouldn't be a privilege reserved for only the wealthy. That's why today @PattyMurray and I are launching a new working group to write landmark legislation to deliver affordable child care for every family. Let's get this done.

Bernie, what Americans are tired of is watching their tax dollars disappear into a black hole of fraud, waste, abuse, and political patronage. We’re told there’s never enough money for health care, housing, or groceries, yet somehow there’s always money for bloated government programs that enrich cronies and fail the people they claim to serve. Look at states like California, New York, and Minnesota—high taxes, massive spending, persistent dysfunction. That’s the clearest argument against giving government even more of our money. At least when money goes through defense procurement, a good share of it still flows to American companies, American workers, and American families, even if that system also needs major reform. The real issue is not just war spending—it’s that government has proven, over and over, that it cannot be trusted to spend taxpayer money honestly or effectively.

Bernie, what Americans are tired of is watching their tax dollars disappear into a black hole of fraud, waste, abuse, and political patronage. We’re told there’s never enough money for health care, housing, or groceries, yet somehow there’s always money for bloated government programs that enrich cronies and fail the people they claim to serve. Look at states like California, New York, and Minnesota—high taxes, massive spending, persistent dysfunction. That’s the clearest argument against giving government even more of our money. At least when money goes through defense procurement, a good share of it still flows to American companies, American workers, and American families, even if that system also needs major reform. The real issue is not just war spending—it’s that government has proven, over and over, that it cannot be trusted to spend taxpayer money honestly or effectively.

Health care? "You're on your own." Housing? "Nothing we can do." Grocery prices? "You're out of luck." $200 billion for another war? "No problem!" Americans—Democrats, Republicans, independents—are SICK AND TIRED of endless wars. We need to invest here at home.

You don’t have to subscribe to Netflix. If the price climbs past what you think it’s worth, just cancel and move on. When enough people do that, Netflix will have to rethink the constant hikes, because a business without customers is just a very expensive hobby. That’s how a **free** market works. So all this performative whining from Elizabeth Warren about Netflix raising prices completely ignores basic economics and just highlights how out of touch she’s become.

You don’t have to subscribe to Netflix. If the price climbs past what you think it’s worth, just cancel and move on. When enough people do that, Netflix will have to rethink the constant hikes, because a business without customers is just a very expensive hobby. That’s how a **free** market works. So all this performative whining from Elizabeth Warren about Netflix raising prices completely ignores basic economics and just highlights how out of touch she’s become.

Netflix just got a $2.8 BILLION payout from Paramount for its failed Warner Bros. deal. Then Netflix turned around and raised prices on millions of customers.

I see this less as ‘protecting democracy’ and more as Democrats panicking that AI is moving faster than their ability to gate it. When AOC and Bernie talk about moratoriums and ‘AI money’ being toxic, what they’re really saying is: hit pause until the political class can decide what we’re allowed to build, read, and share with these tools. AI blows up their old chokepoints—legacy media, party-approved experts, centralized narratives—so of course the instinct is to clamp down first and figure out the justification later. I don’t want the same people who already failed to regulate Big Tech speech fairly becoming the editors-in-chief of what every citizen can and can’t do with AI.

I see this less as ‘protecting democracy’ and more as Democrats panicking that AI is moving faster than their ability to gate it. When AOC and Bernie talk about moratoriums and ‘AI money’ being toxic, what they’re really saying is: hit pause until the political class can decide what we’re allowed to build, read, and share with these tools. AI blows up their old chokepoints—legacy media, party-approved experts, centralized narratives—so of course the instinct is to clamp down first and figure out the justification later. I don’t want the same people who already failed to regulate Big Tech speech fairly becoming the editors-in-chief of what every citizen can and can’t do with AI.

Politicians - especially Dems - should pledge not to take AI money. They are buying up influence ahead of the midterms, and Dems who take AI $ will lose authority and trust as the public bears the cost. Their money will end up being toxic anyway. People are catching on.

That’s a pretty misleading statement from AOC. Sam Altman did call for strong AI regulation, but the lack of “big laws” is mostly a result of Congress being unable to agree on comprehensive AI legislation, not proof that his earlier calls were fake. And saying OpenAI is now “cozy with defense contracts” skips over important nuance: working with the U.S. government on security and research does not automatically mean they flipped from “please regulate us” to “light touch or China wins.” It’s fair to criticize Altman’s preferred kind of regulation or his business choices, but framing it this way oversimplifies a much more complicated situation.

🇺🇸 AOC said that a few years ago Sam Altman begged Congress for strict AI regs 3 years later? Zero big laws, and OpenAI's now cozy with defense contracts. From "please regulate us before disaster" to "light touch or China wins"..

This is why I didn’t chase the memory-chip trade over the last six months. First, all semiconductors are cyclical, and memory is the most commoditized part of that cycle. Second, I had a sense that new architectures would solve many of the bottlenecks that early technology ran into. That’s also part of why I exited Nvidia over a month ago: both next‑gen chips and Nvidia’s own roadmap may be signaling a peak in Nvidia‑specific demand.

@rawsalerts Means we are invading Narnia

🚨#BREAKING: The official White House account shared a mysterious video with its 4.1 million followers, captioned ‘sound on,’ showing a close-up of a woman’s shoes.

@SenFettermanPA 💯 this bill doesn’t give any idea what the point is for it. It is clear that Bernie Sanders and AOC just want to create gateway that they control that they can use to extort comp as miss if they want to participate.

The emerging chassis of AI must be built by America. We can put appropriate guardrails in place without handing the win on AI to China. A moratorium is China First.

OpenAI just quietly told you everything you need to know. On one front, it’s taking down high‑burn consumer experiments like the Sora video app and promising to fold them into a single, all‑in‑one ChatGPT super‑app later. On the other, it’s sending out letters to private‑equity firms dangling a 17.5% “guaranteed” minimum return if they’ll help fund joint ventures and push its models into their portfolio companies. Put together, that’s not the behavior of a company swimming in cheap capital. It’s what you do when your consumer toys are guzzling GPU and power with weak monetization, your compute costs are exploding, and the easy private money that funded the last couple of years is starting to seize up. These frontier AI engines are running like jet engines on afterburners, just as private credit and late‑stage growth equity—the shadow fuel that kept them in the air—are drying up. Zoom out and you see the same story with SpaceX. It’s now reportedly trying to rush an IPO as early as this week, not because the business suddenly changed, but because there’s only so much public capital available for a handful of trillion‑dollar‑narrative names. SpaceX wants to blast through the window first, suck in as much fresh public cash as possible, and leave less oxygen for the rest. So you have OpenAI shutting down Sora, consolidating into a single ChatGPT app, and begging private equity with rich terms, while SpaceX sprints to the public markets. It all rhymes: the AI and space leaders are burning unimaginable amounts of cash on data centers, chips, and rockets just as the private‑market spigot clogs and the industry slams into a physical compute and power wall. The race now is to pivot hard into enterprise contracts and IPOs fast enough to keep those afterburners lit.

Bernie Sanders doesn’t understand what’s happening here, or he’s hoping you don’t. While he drags Jeff Bezos in front of Congress and screams about “replacing workers with robots,” this video shows what’s actually going on: robots doing brutal, dehumanizing, ultra‑repetitive factory work that no person should be stuck doing in 2026. On top of that, we don’t even have enough people to fill the manufacturing jobs we’re bringing back to the United States—hundreds of thousands of positions are already sitting open, and millions more are projected to go unfilled over the next decade. So, yes, we *need* robots to take over the monotonous, mechanical tasks, or the factories simply cannot run. This isn’t rocket science; it’s basic reality to anyone who understands manufacturing and the workforce numbers. Instead of leveling with people about that, Sanders sells a fantasy of “class war” and pretends modernization is some evil plot, when in truth it’s the only way to keep these plants open with the workers we actually have.

Oh, back to the future nailed it.

Either Bernie Sanders is lying, or he’s just not a smart person—but he can’t be both. Based on what we actually know, Bezos is trying to raise around $100 billion to buy and modernize old manufacturing companies with AI and automation, not because factories are full, but because there aren’t enough people to do all the work. We have a serious shortage of manufacturing workers, so robots are being used to cover the gaps—especially for the inhumane, ultra‑repetitive, dangerous, and mind‑numbingly monotonous tasks that people don’t want and often shouldn’t be doing in the first place. Instead of admitting this, Sanders screams “class warfare” and calls it a war on workers, which is exactly why I can’t support him or his party: he turns necessary modernization into fake division where there doesn’t have to be any.

This is objectively funny.

In this powerful 2-minute segment, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar warns that America’s biggest threat from China isn’t external defeat — it’s self-sabotage. He argues the U.S. has the talent, technology, and industrial potential to outpace China, but risks “suicide” through internal division, declining competence, and cultural pessimism. Instead of fixating only on beating China, America must inspire its “latent heretics” — the bold thinkers and builders currently sitting on the sidelines — to step up and restore national will. A sharp, urgent call to reject defeatism and reclaim the drive that made America unstoppable.

You’re leaving out a huge part of the story. We don’t even have enough people to fill all the manufacturing jobs we *already* have, which is why factories are turning to robots for the dangerous, inhumane, ultra‑repetitive, mind‑numbingly monotonous work that humans don’t want and often shouldn’t be doing in the first place. Automation isn’t some cartoon villain twirling its mustache; it’s how you keep supply chains running when there aren’t enough workers to safely do these jobs.

Wild how billionaires keep calling it “innovation” when what they really mean is “you won’t have a job, but I will have a bigger yacht.” If Jeff Bezos wants to automate millions of workers out of existence, he owes the country a real answer: What’s the plan for the people he’s replacing?

Jeff Bezos, worth $233 billion, wants to raise $100 billion to replace factory workers with robots. That’s a declaration of war against the working class. He must explain to the American people what happens when millions lose their jobs. How will they survive?