I just left the Senate floor where I laid out the top ten ways Donald Trump is wrecking the country. Every American…

I just left the Senate floor where I laid out the top ten ways Donald Trump is wrecking the country. Every American should know the facts about this administration – so here they are: (Thread 🧵)

At number 10 – Attacking our research universities, and dismantling a partnership with the federal government that has powered innovation and our economy. Deterring the best and brightest students from around the world from coming to America, and sending them elsewhere.

At number 9 – Cutting food for hungry families. Eviscerating SNAP to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Families go hungry. Your grocery prices go up. Billionaires win.

At number 8 – Weakening our alliances around the world. Distancing ourselves from fellow democracies and embracing dictatorships. Making our foreign policy transactional, or worse, dependent on paying tribute to the president. And making us all less safe.

At number 7 – Destroying our renewable energy future, and handing global leadership of the industry to China. Retreating from any hope of addressing climate change. And that means more of a monopoly for your utility company, and higher energy bills for you.

At number 6 – Making deep cuts to health and science research, and cutting NIH in half. Fewer clinical trials. Fewer cures. More preventable illness and premature death. Americans will be sicker, poorer, and die younger.

At number 5 – DOGE-ing essential government services. Cutting Social Security access for seniors. Losing firefighters at the start of fire season. Crippling NASA and USAID. Breaking up the Department for Education and selling our off our kids’ future. Breaking trust with federal employees and those reliant on federal services.

At number 4 – Doing grave and self-inflicted harm to our economy with Donald Trump’s nonsensical tariffs. Causing friends and allies to boycott American goods. And forcing everyday Americans to pay the price, with higher prices at the grocery store, at Walmart, and on Amazon.

At number 3 - Stripping away healthcare for millions of Americans. Everyone, Medicaid recipient or not, will feel the effects of these senseless cuts when hospitals close, clinics close, and your medical bills go up.

At number 2 - Trump’s endless attacks on the rule of law. Using the Justice Department as a sword to go after his political enemies, and as a shield to protect his friends, and to protect no one more than himself. Ignoring court orders. And destroying the principle that no one is above the law.

At number 1 - Donald Trump has assailed the very idea of America. America began as an improbable experiment in self-governance, founded upon the principle that people possessed sufficient virtue to be able to rule themselves without a despot. We have served as a beacon to freedom-loving people all over the world. All of that is at risk with this presidency.

At the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin believed that the sun was rising on the new American republic. Now, many Americans fear that sun may be setting. But we will get through the present trial. We must do all we can to mitigate the harms from this administration until they are brought to an end. And then we will begin the long process of restoring the very best of America.