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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Jul 8, 2025

Honestly, if you’re concerned about the debt … I don’t think just electing a few better people is going to change the trajectory.

nypost.com
Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Jul 8, 2025

I’m a Republican … I don’t want to see that happen.

nypost.com
Tony Evers
@tonyevers· Democratic · WI· Jul 8, 2025

Wisconsinites want to protect our constitutional checks and balances. Today’s Wisconsin Supreme Court decision ensures that no small group of lawmakers has the sole power to stymie the work of state government and go unchecked.

newrepublic.com
Tony Evers
@tonyevers· Democratic · WI· Jul 8, 2025

It’s pretty simple—a handful of Republican lawmakers should not be able to single-handedly and indefinitely obstruct state agencies from doing the people’s work.

newrepublic.com
Tony Evers
@tonyevers· Democratic · WI· Jul 8, 2025

by blocking the rule, the legislative committee is taking over powers that the state constitution assigns to the governor and exercising an unconstitutional 'legislative veto.'

nbcnews.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 8, 2025

A country that cannot feed itself, cannot take care of itself, and cannot provide for itself, is not secure, and we have to be able to feed ourselves to make sure that no other country ever controls us.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Jul 8, 2025

Over 300,000 Pennsylvanians stand to lose their Medicaid coverage as a result of the federal budget bill that passed the House and Senate last week. 300,000. Congressional Republicans knew the devastating impacts this bill would have on…

newsweek.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 8, 2025

Temporary Protected Status was designed to be just that — temporary.

nbcnews.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 8, 2025

On the 6 month anniversary of the LA wildfires Donald Trump decided to send troops on horseback to round people up on soccer fields instead of delivering what LA actually needs — the emergency aid that he continues to play games with. What…

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 8, 2025

The parents that were looking for their children and picking up their daughters' stuffed animals out of the mud and finding their daughter's shoe that might be laying in the cabin and, just hugging and comforting people matters a lot.

newsweek.com
Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Jul 8, 2025

He could not stop talking about how sad he was for all the little girls who have lost their lives.

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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Jul 8, 2025

This will make it easier for health care and mental health providers from out of state to help both by traveling to the area and by telemedicine.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 8, 2025

The visit was 'very emotional' and 'just so tragic,'

newsweek.com
Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Jul 8, 2025

it’s going to be something that will be looked at

nypost.com
Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Jul 8, 2025

Our proposal is also consistent with virtually every other pension plan — state and private — currently operating in our country, and it matches the strategy most nations use to fund their retirement programs.

thehill.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 8, 2025

TSA will no longer require travelers to remove their shoes when they go through our security checkpoints.

cbsnews.com
Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Jul 8, 2025

Just when you thought Palm Beach real estate couldn't go any higher

newsweek.com