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Israel Gets Bills Passed in a Day. Americans Wait Months. Here’s What Democrats Want From Leaders

Israel Gets Bills Passed in a Day. Americans Wait Months, Years, Even Decades. Here’s What Democrats Want From Leaders

The voters gave them a Congress, and Democrats aren’t going to give it up. We want our leaders to run for us as quick as they run for a foreign government.

Democrats just won back Congress. Voters did that. Now the question is simple: will party leadership finally act for the people who put them there, or keep studying, mulling, and “looking into it” while the country burns?

Because when Israel wants something, Congress doesn’t think; they unanimously pass bills with no confusion, delays, or input from American citizens.

Israel Gets Hours. We Get Months, Years, Even Decades Of Indecision.

October 25, 2023: H.Res. 771, a resolution standing with Israel, was introduced and passed the House the same day, 412 to 10, under a procedure that skips amendments. Total debate: about an hour. (govinfo, bill text; Congressional Record; House roll call 528)

November 2, 2023: H.R. 6126, a $14.3 billion Israel aid bill, passed the House one day after it was introduced, with one hour of debate. (govinfo; Congressional Record)

April 2024: The Israel aid bill, H.R. 8034, went from introduction on April 17 to law on April 24. Seven days. (LegiScan; House roll call 152)

And when Congress isn’t fast enough, it gets skipped entirely. In December 2023, the administration used emergency authority to bypass congressional review for tank shells and artillery components. In March 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio bypassed Congress again for about $4 billion in weapons to Israel. When senators tried to block sales in April 2025, the Senate voted them down 82 to 15. (Asharq Al-Awsat; Arms Control Association; The Week)

Now look at what Americans get.

Health care. The enhanced ACA premium subsidies expired at the end of 2025. Families saw premium payments rise an average of 114%, and enrollment fell by more than a million people. The House didn’t pass an extension until January 8, 2026. By February, talks had “sputtered in the Senate,” and the CBO warned “4 million people could become uninsured.” (KPBS; InsuranceNewsNet; LAist; WESH)

The shutdown. The 2025 government shutdown lasted a record 43 days. The deal that ended it “did not extend” the ACA credits. (Fortune; PBS NewsHour) When the next shutdown ended in February 2026, the headline from JNS read: “Trump signs bill ending shutdown, with more than $4 billion for Israel.” (JNS)

Families with kids. The child tax credit expansion passed the House on January 31, 2024. It sat for 183 days, then died in the Senate. (EY Tax News)

Workers. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since July 24, 2009, the longest stretch without a raise since the minimum wage was created in 1938. (NPR)

One day for Israel. Seventeen years for American workers.

So ask the question out loud: why can’t we get the same efficiency Israel gets? Is it because we aren’t paying millions? AIPAC and its allies spent tens of millions this election cycle alone. Working families can’t write those checks. That shouldn’t decide whose needs get a vote.

They Took Our Data

Under Elon Musk’s DOGE, Americans’ most sensitive personal information was treated like it was up for grabs.

In August 2025, Social Security’s own chief data officer, Charles Borges, filed a whistleblower disclosure saying DOGE “created a live copy of the country’s Social Security information… in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight,” covering “over 300 million Americans.” He warned the agency “might have to re-issue Social Security Numbers to all who possess one.” He resigned days later. (Government Accountability Project; CBS Sacramento)

In January 2026, the Justice Department admitted in court that DOGE sent Social Security data to a “third-party server” that wasn’t approved to hold agency records, and that a DOGE employee signed a “Voter Data Agreement” with a “political advocacy group” seeking to “overturn election results in certain States.” (Rep. John Larson) A federal appeals judge called the government’s admissions “alarming,” and another said the administration “provided patently false information.” (Government Executive)

Reuters reported DOGE used a customized version of Musk’s own Grok AI to analyze federal data. ICE handed Palantir a $30 million contract for its “ImmigrationOS” system. (Reuters via The Star; Democracy Now!)

And the IRS gave ICE 47,289 taxpayer records. A federal judge ruled it broke the law, roughly 42,695 violations, and the D.C. Circuit upheld that ruling in September 2026: the policy “flies in the face of the statutory command.” (Raw Story)

Courts found laws were broken. Where are the consequences?

Trading Stocks From the Oval Office

On April 9, 2025, at 9:37 a.m., Trump posted: “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT.” At 1:18 p.m., he announced the tariff pause. The S&P 500 jumped 9.5% and the Nasdaq 12.2%. Schumer, Warren, and Schiff asked the SEC to investigate. (Sen. Adam Schiff)

Trump’s own financial disclosures show 3,642 trades between January 6 and March 30, 2026, worth $212 million to $695 million. He bought Nvidia on January 6, and the next week his administration relaxed Nvidia chip export rules. He bought Palantir in March, then praised the company publicly in April. (CBS News) Sen. Elizabeth Warren documented 29 trades in private prison companies GEO Group and CoreCivic in 2025, the companies that profit from mass detention. (Warren letter, Aug. 12, 2026)

Then there’s crypto. Reuters estimated the Trump family made at least $2.3 billion from crypto ventures while about a million investors lost $2.3 billion. (Gizmodo, citing Reuters)

Isn’t this illegal? Here’s the problem: the STOCK Act “requires you to disclose individual securities transactions, but does not prohibit them” for the president. (Warren letter) Insider trading and market manipulation are illegal for everyone, but nobody has investigated. The fix is a law that bans the president and members of Congress from trading individual stocks, and Democrats now have the majority to pass it.

ICE Killed American Citizens. No One Has Been Charged.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, a U.S. citizen and mother of three, was shot and killed by ICE officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. Witnesses said the agent “backed away and then fired three shots through the driver’s window,” and that her vehicle “was not moving toward the agents.” The administration called her death “an act of domestic terrorism.” The Justice Department said “there is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation,” and about six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned. (FOX 9; KEYC/AP)

Alex Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse and U.S. citizen, was killed by Border Patrol in Minneapolis on January 24, 2026. Witnesses said he was trying to help a woman who’d been pushed to the ground. Video shows he was not holding a gun. Federal personnel blocked state investigators even after they obtained a search warrant. (FOX 9; MPR News) Kristi Noem refused to take back calling them “domestic terrorists.” (NBC News)

In September 2026, the federal government stopped sharing evidence with Minnesota prosecutors “indefinitely.” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the federal government is “intent on obstructing our investigations for however long they can.” (Spokesman-Review)

The Trace counted at least 32 shootings by immigration agents since January 2025, with at least 9 people killed. (Newsweek, citing The Trace)

Jeffries called it a “DHS killing machine” and promised to “commence impeachment proceedings against Kristi Noem in the absence of her being fired.” (Office of Leader Jeffries) Democrats forced a 76-day DHS shutdown demanding judicial warrants, no masks, and body cameras. Then, on April 30, the bill ending it passed the Senate unanimously and the House by voice vote, with none of those reforms in it. (CBS News; CBS News)

Strong words. Then they folded.

A President With No Accountability

As of November 2026, courts have ruled against the Trump administration in 325 cases. (Just Security litigation tracker) An AP review found judges determined the administration ignored court orders in “at least 31 instances,” including deportation flights to El Salvador that kept going after a judge ordered them turned around. (Scripps News)

And the day after Democrats won the House, Jeffries told the country: “The American people don’t want us to get even.” (The New Republic)

Holding a president accountable for breaking the law isn’t “getting even.” It’s the job.

Why Is a Foreign Leader Addressing the American People?

On October 18, 2026, Benjamin Netanyahu posted an English-language video speaking straight to camera: “Let me say to the American people… if you’re worried about today’s gas prices, think of what will happen if Iran gets nuclear weapons.” He told Americans gas prices would go down “but only under Trump,” and warned against “those who want to accommodate and appease these tyrants.” (Times of Israel; Middle East Eye)

That was two weeks before the American midterm elections, right after Trump endorsed Netanyahu in Israel’s own election. (CBS News) A foreign head of government telling American voters which party will lower their gas prices. Sen. Brian Schatz called it out: “Netanyahu speaking to Americans, direct to camera, to justify this war and scold us about being upset about gas prices.” (Primetimer)

It isn’t a one-off. Netanyahu went on Fox’s Hannity in March and CBS’s 60 Minutes in May 2026. (Fox News; CBS transcript) In 2025 he told American influencers that “one of the most important” weapons “is social media… Our influencers.” (Jewish Insider) Israel’s government hired Brad Parscale’s Clock Tower X on a $6 million contract targeting 50 million paid impressions a month aimed at Americans, according to Justice Department FARA filings. (FARA exhibit; Sludge)

A foreign government is spending millions to shape what Americans think. Where were Schumer and Jeffries?

What Democrats Want

We don’t need more press conferences, strongly worded letters, or “we’ll see.” We want:

Decisive action, on our timeline. If Israel aid can pass in a day, the ACA subsidies, the child tax credit, and a minimum wage raise can pass in a week.

Accountability for broken laws. Investigate DOGE’s handling of our data. Hold officials responsible for every court order ignored.

A stock trading ban for the president and every member of Congress.

Justice for Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and every family harmed. Judicial warrants, no masks, body cameras, and prosecution when agents kill.

An end to foreign interference in our politics, from foreign-funded influence campaigns to a foreign leader campaigning to American voters.

Leaders who ask us what we want instead of telling us what’s going to happen.

Voters made the 2026 wins happen. We expect leadership to work as hard for us as it does for a foreign government. If Schumer and Jeffries won’t, the new Congress should choose leaders who will.

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