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Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Jul 10, 2025

My hope is that the president's starting to recognize that Vladimir Putin doesn't want peace, Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 10, 2025

I see it happening because while I’m here, we’re going to make sure parents are in the driver’s seat of their own kids’ education.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 10, 2025

Microschools, to me, are just an innovation that says, ‘Hey, I’m not happy with that public school system. Don’t maybe like that charter option. We’re going to put our own microschool together.'

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 10, 2025

It has been slow to respond at the federal level. It's even been slower to get the resources to Americans in crisis, and that is why this entire agency needs to be eliminated as it exists today, and remade into a responsive agency.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 10, 2025

Our Coast Guard, our Border Patrol, BORTAC teams were there immediately. Every single thing they asked for, we were there.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 10, 2025

Federal emergency management should be state and locally led, rather than how it has operated for decades.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 10, 2025

Because people start to mistrust anything that comes out over the news, and then they just don’t trust anybody.

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Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Jul 10, 2025

I think some of those isolationist voices may have literally lost some credibility with the president.

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Jay Inslee
@jayinslee· Democratic · WA· Jul 10, 2025

I literally turned the car around and drove to SeaTac Airport.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 10, 2025

Mark, his wife, and his 14-year-old son who was very close with so many kids, including my own son, in the Marin County area, they’re missing.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 10, 2025

Nobody there has said anything about not getting everything they wanted immediately or that they needed, and I’m proud of the work we’ve done to support that.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 10, 2025

They don’t want to be accountable to markets today.

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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Jul 10, 2025

We must ensure better preparation for such events in the future.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 10, 2025

there’s no reason to worry that eliminating this widely despised piece of security theater will make Americans unsafe

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 10, 2025

continuing to be political and push out fake information and false information and lies is not shocking, but it’s a disservice to the country.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 10, 2025

CNN, again, is absolutely trash, what they are doing by saying that.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Jul 10, 2025

By repealing this outdated ban on Sunday hunting, Pennsylvanians can spend more time outdoors, with more chances to share traditions and a stronger future for conservation.

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