Sean Casten
@SeanCasten
US Rep, IL-06. Engineer. Former CEO. Dad. Husband. Born at 326 ppm. Official tweets @RepCasten. Also: SeanCasten at Mastodon & Bluesky.
"The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious… garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them." - Frederick Douglass
It is appropriate that the @HouseGOP is spending this week trying to rename a federal building after one of Epstein's friends.
New: House Republicans are trying to rename part of the Kennedy Center for Melania Trump. A GOP amendment on the Interior spending bill states “That the Opera House located in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts shall be known and designated as the ‘First Lady…
Ghislaine Maxwell has huge incentives to tell the Trump Administration what they want to hear and equally big incentives not to reveal anything Trump is afraid of. Trump isn't going to pardon her as a quid pro quo for making him look bad. Warrants extreme skepticism and suspicion
Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know? At @AGPamBondi’s direction, I’ve contacted her counsel. I intend to meet with her soon. No one is above the law—and no lead is off-limits.
You don't endorse and support a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who partied with Epstein AND get to claim that you have a moral foundation on which you make decisions. Johnson might be a coward. He might be a Jim Jordan-level enabler. But he ain't a moral leader.
REPORTER: Did the president or anyone in his administration ask you to delay the resolution until after recess? MIKE JOHNSON: No. But as you all know, I speak to the president multiple times a day. Often. Always. He agrees with everything I've said here today.
Me, on C-SPAN this morning talking about Epstein, state of our democracy, importance of an independent Fed, immigration and anything else nationwide callers are curious about! (I love doing these.)
Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL, @SeanCasten) a member of Financial Services Committee, discusses spending bills and budget deadlines, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and congressional news of the day Watch here: tinyurl.com/4tfj8n5z
This is what happens when you elect cowards, sycophants, felons and child abusers. America deserves better. politico.com/live-updates/2…
I'm still remember when I promised my voters that if elected, I promise to spend all my time naming post offices. The @HouseGOP DELIVERS for the American people.
Rep. Ralph Norman, Rules Cmte member, just said they’re at a standstill and won’t pass a rule on anything ALL WEEK as the Epstein tension persists. That means only bills on “suspension” (requiring a 2/3rds majority) can get floor votes — and if they run out they all go home.
The entire @HouseGOP is now committed to protecting pedophiles. And dammit, they'll even go home early this week if that's what the pedophiles demand.
NEWS — RALPH NORMAN, hardline conservative on the House Rules Committee, says the panel will not report a rule this week for bills, effectively shutting down the house floor. Why? He doesn’t want to vote on Democrats’ Epstein amendments. He says it’s grandstanding.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (inhale) HAHAHAHAHAHAHA They are definitely not anxious to face their constituents on this bill. But if they do show up in your town, make sure to let them know what you think!
He's off his damn rocker.
Summary of Pres Trump’s truth social posts last night via @playbookdc
I've been reluctant to say this. But I may have less respect for Mike Johnson than I ever had for Kevin McCarthy.
He blew up the deficit by $3.5 trillion and had to borrow another $5 trillion to pay it down and he's bragging about cutting $9 billion from foreign aid. His claims to be motivated by the bible or the constitution are just as vapid as his claims to know how to do math.
Speaker Johnson: The Republican Party is the party of fiscal responsibility and we are demonstrating that day after day
More specifically, if Mike Johnson went back to his normal status as rando backbencher, the House would fulfill it's Constitutional duty as a coequal check on the Executive. And Mikey could still wear his Daddy Trump shirt.
Speaker Johnson: Remember it's only twice in 90 years a sitting president has picked up seats for his party in the house… But we must do it must defy history and do that because if the Democrats were able to take the majority, they would impeach President Trump on the first day.
Your periodic reminder that Donald Trump is not the only enabler of sexual assault in the @GOP.
DiSabato: Let me just be clear. Jim Jordan knew that Dr. Strauss was performing unnecessary genital exams. And he absolutely knew that Dr. Strauss was taking showers with us on a daily basis.. He knows that because he was there with us. Jim took showers with us. It went on for…