BREAKING: At 2 AM, Republicans just passed a bill to defund public broadcasting and lifesaving aid because Trump told them to—they wouldn’t even protect rural radio or emergency alerts.
Congress should decide what we spend and what we cut—not Trump and not Russ Vought.
I voted NO.
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Patty Murray
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Yes25%
No69%
Present0%
Not Voting6%
Party align98%
Cross-party0%
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Patty Murray
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It's past midnight—do you know where your Senator is?
I'm on the Senate floor ready to vote NO on cuts to PBS, emergency alerts, and global health investments.
I won't vote for DOGE cuts, because I don't take my orders from Donald Trump or Russ Vought.
It's past 10pm on a Wednesday night, and Republicans are still working to defund PBS, rural radio, lifesaving aid, and more.
Democrats have been forcing amendment votes for hours, and we're still at it.
I'm voting NO on these DOGE cuts, and so should every Senator.
🚨Did you know that RIGHT NOW Republicans are working to defund public broadcasting? Everything from shows our kids love like Sesame Street to local news to emergency alerts.
I'm on the Senate floor forcing as many amendment votes as possible to save this funding.
Public broadcasting provides free, educational programming that helps our kids grow and learn, whether it's Daniel Tiger or Sesame Street.
We need to send a message to Trump: Big Bird is not on the chopping block, and let's send these Republican funding cuts to Oscar's place, AKA the trash can.
Public broadcasting funds support local stations, which help with emergency planning.
In fact, many stations use their towers to actually deliver emergency alerts to people's cellphones when cell towers go down.
Do Republicans want people to have LESS warning in an emergency?
Here's a history lesson for my Republican colleagues. When President Clinton wanted a line-item veto, I said NO.
I came to the Senate to fight for my state, not to weaken or surrender my responsibilities to ANY President.
If Republicans agree, they need to vote NO on these DOGE cuts.
To my Republican colleagues expressing concern about cuts to rural radio, lifesaving aid, and PBS: Donald Trump does not care about rescissions.
He likely doesn't even know what rescissions are. He will forget about this in a day.
Here’s a tip: If you don't like this bill—DON'T VOTE FOR IT.
Just two weeks ago Republicans added trillions to the deficit. Now they're pretending they're SO concerned about the debt that they have to cut lifesaving aid, PBS, and rural radio.
That doesn't add up.
So I tried to help my Republican colleagues with some basic counting on the Senate floor.
BREAKING: Republicans voted to advance cuts to rural radio, emergency alerts, and lifesaving aid.
After blowing up the deficit by trillions on billionaire tax breaks, Republicans are pretending to care about the debt.
It's not over yet. Now we debate & vote on amendments.
I just voted NO to advance Trump's DOGE cuts to PBS, rural radio, and lifesaving aid.
Republicans need to decide: Does Congress decide how to spend taxpayer dollars, or do they just take orders from Russ Vought?
The “time to prevent future cuts to Medicaid” was when you could have voted AGAINST the bill that cut Medicaid in the first place.
After voting to kick millions of Americans off their health care, Republicans are focused on defunding PBS this week.
Meanwhile, Democrats are introducing a bill I wrote with Rep. Bobby Scott to make child care affordable and accessible for every family.
When Republicans want to defund Sesame Street, instead of doing literally anything to help middle-class families.
To pretend Republicans are serious about addressing the debt is laughable—and America should laugh!
You could cut the equivalent of what Trump is currently asking for in DOGE cuts every single day, for an entire year, and it still would not match the cost of the Big Ugly bill!
Just so we’re all up to speed, the Republican policy agenda for 2025 is:
📻 Defund PBS & rural radio
🏥 Kick millions off their health care
🍽️ Rip food away from hungry kids
🛥️ Tax cuts for billionaires
I'm voting NO on their DOGE cuts, and so should every Senator.
Republican agenda for this week? Slashing funding for rural radio & aid to stop epidemics around the world.
We're talking about less than 0.14% of the federal budget, by the way.
Apparently, we had enough to spend trillions on tax giveaways for billionaires, but PBS is just too much.
President Trump is now asking Republicans in Congress to rubberstamp Elon's DOGE cuts and rip up bipartisan spending deals.
Every Senator should vote NO and reject Trump’s request to cut off local news broadcasts and weaken our national security.
We invest abroad because it's the SMART thing to do for America. But it's WORTH saying it's the RIGHT thing to do as well.
It's WRONG to shell out trillions for billionaires, only to say less than a penny a day is too expensive to protect hundreds of thousands of little girls from HIV.
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Voting History
830 total votes
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| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | H.R. 1 (119th) | Decision of the Chair S.Amdt. 2360 to H.R. 1 (No short title on file) | NO | NO | ✓ | Decision of Chair Sustained (53-47) |
| 2025-06-28 | H.R. 1 (119th) | Begin consideration | NO | NO | ✓ | Motion to Proceed Agreed to (51-49) |
| 2025-06-27 | S.J. Res. 59 (119th) | Motion to Discharge S.J.Res. 59 | YES | YES | ✓ | Motion to Discharge Rejected (47-53) |
| 2025-06-26 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (53-45) |
| 2025-06-25 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (53-44) |
| 2025-06-25 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (56-40) |
| 2025-06-24 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (56-42) |
| 2025-06-24 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (61-35) |
| 2025-06-23 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (58-33) |
| 2025-06-18 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (51-46) |
| 2025-06-18 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (53-45) |
| 2025-06-18 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (50-46) |
| 2025-06-17 | S. 1582 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Bill Passed (68-30) |
| 2025-06-17 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (53-45) |
| 2025-06-17 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (57-40) |
| 2025-06-17 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (53-44) |
| 2025-06-17 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (46-39) |
| 2025-06-16 | — | End debate | NOT_VOTING | NO | — | Cloture Motion Agreed to (44-33) |
| 2025-06-12 | S. 1582 (119th) | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (67-27, 3/5 majority required) |
| 2025-06-12 | S. 1582 (119th) | Vote on amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Amendment Agreed to (67-30) |
| 2025-06-12 | — | Motion (Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Amdt. No. 2307) | NO | NO | ✓ | Motion Agreed to (64-33, 3/5 majority required) |
| 2025-06-12 | S. 1582 (119th) | Kill the motion | YES | YES | ✓ | Motion to Table Failed (45-52) |
| 2025-06-12 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (53-44) |
| 2025-06-11 | S.J. Res. 54 (119th) | Motion to Discharge S.J.Res. 54 | YES | YES | ✓ | Motion to Discharge Rejected (39-56) |
| 2025-06-11 | S.J. Res. 53 (119th) | Motion to Discharge S.J.Res. 53 | YES | YES | ✓ | Motion to Discharge Rejected (39-56) |
| 2025-06-11 | S. 1582 (119th) | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (68-30, 3/5 majority required) |
| 2025-06-11 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (53-46) |
| 2025-06-10 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (51-43) |
| 2025-06-10 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (51-44) |
| 2025-06-10 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (51-44) |
| 2025-06-10 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (48-45) |
| 2025-06-10 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (53-41) |
| 2025-06-09 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (53-43) |
| 2025-06-09 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (51-41) |
| 2025-06-05 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (49-40) |
| 2025-06-05 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (52-43) |
| 2025-06-05 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (52-43) |
| 2025-06-05 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (52-43) |
| 2025-06-04 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (57-38) |
| 2025-06-04 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (48-46) |
| 2025-06-04 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (51-46) |
| 2025-06-04 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (60-37) |
| 2025-06-04 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (51-46) |
| 2025-06-03 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (72-26) |
| 2025-06-03 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (66-28) |
| 2025-06-03 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (59-36) |
| 2025-06-03 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (59-37) |
| 2025-06-03 | — | Confirm nominee | NO | NO | ✓ | Nomination Confirmed (51-46) |
| 2025-06-02 | — | End debate | NO | NO | ✓ | Cloture Motion Agreed to (51-45) |
| 2025-05-22 | H.J. Res. 89 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Joint Resolution Passed (49-46) |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.