April 4, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Tonight, Republicans voted down Senator Angela Alsobrooks’ (D-Md.) amendment that would have protected collective bargaining for federal workers.  “To threaten the ability of federal workers to organize and to pursue collective bargaining is to threaten all our brothers and sisters in organized labor. “This President is terrified of power centered with the people. “I called up an amendment tonight that would reverse Trump’s illegal executive order gutting federal workers’ rights to collective bargaining.  “Republicans blocked it. “It’s shameful. It’s callous.  “We will not stop fighting back.” Senator Alsobrooks also led nine other amendments, all of which Republicans blocked or refused to bring

April 2, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) joined Leader Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senator Kaine (D-Va.), and Senator Welch (D-Vt.) for a press conference addressing Trump’s “Liberation Day”: “Who should sustain the pain? I would say it absolutely should not be the middle class and hardworking families of this country who pay for the tax cuts for [Trump’s] billionaire friends and who suffer beneath these tariffs.” ###

April 2, 2025 Shortly After Trump Announces Sweeping Tariffs, Republicans BLOCK Alsobrooks’ Commonsense Tariff Transparency Bill  WASHINGTON, DC – Today, following Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs, imposing a new 10 percent tariff on all imported goods along with additional tariffs on our closest allies, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) took to the Senate Floor to ask unanimous consent that the Senate pass her commonsense Tariff Transparency Act. Republicans blocked the legislation:  “The president readily admits that these tariffs will disrupt the economy, but he claims two things: that there will only be a minor disruption and says they will cause ‘a little bit’ of pain. Maybe