At the 8-year anniversary of Senator Reverend Warnock’s 2017 arrest protesting the last Trump tax cut, Senator Warnock held a vigil with multi-faith leaders while the Senate debated the GOP tax bill

Senator Warnock was arrested in the Russell rotunda in 2017, before he was elected to the Senate, protesting the previous GOP tax giveaway. 

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Washington, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) held a vigil with a multi-faith coalition to pray that GOP lawmakers have the courage to stand up for their constituents and vote against the GOP tax bill. The Senator prayed for the 16 million Americans who are expected to lose health care coverage if the bill passes. Following the Russell Rotunda vigil, the Senator led the procession of faith leaders to the Senate floor as the chamber debated the immoral GOP tax bill.

“And so, in this season of unnecessary cruelty, we bear witness to kindness. Kindness not only in our interpersonal relations, but kindness in public policy. Do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God. Thank you for these faith leaders who have come for such a time as this. Be now with us and give us every spiritual grace as we stand as voices for the voiceless, so that the preaching of Jesus might be made incarnate,” prayed Senator Reverend Warnock.  

The Senator was arrested in the Russell Rotunda 2017, before he was elected to the Senate, along with a coalition of multi-faith leaders, while protesting the GOP tax bill during the first Trump Administration. Video of 2017 arrest HERE.

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