this administration is diverting funds from the nuclear modernization budget to finance costly renovations to this plane.

It’s very disappointing that the Netanyahu government, not the Israeli people, but the Netanyahu government has choked off humanitarian aid since virtually the very beginning, but most brutally recently.

What I'm doing in Virginia in August is I'm going to talk about Medicaid and Medicare and SNAP.

The promise that I made to the people of Maryland when the Trump administration came on board was that I will work with anyone, but I will bow down to no one.

For these reasons, I am through supporting the actions of the current Israeli government and will advocate—and vote—for an end to any United States support whatsoever until there is a demonstrable change in the direction of Israeli policy.

Israel's actions in the conduct of the war in Gaza, especially its failure to address the unimaginable humanitarian crisis now unfolding, is an affront to human decency.

My litmus test will be simple: No aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.

that tragic event cannot in turn justify the enormous toll on Palestinian civilians caused by Israel's relentless bombing campaign and its indifference to the current plight of those trapped in what's left of Gaza.

The starvation gripping Gaza is a deliberately induced famine among a civilian population—including tens of thousands of starving children and can never be an acceptable military strategy.

I cannot defend the indefensible... I am through supporting the actions of the current Israeli government.

I cannot defend the indefensible. Israel’s actions in the conduct of the war in Gaza, especially its failure to address the unimaginable humanitarian crisis now unfolding, is an affront to human decency.

Meanwhile the biggest corporations and the richest Americans have grabbed unimaginable wealth at your expense. It's time for that to change.

disrespecting our veterans

I never really wanted to go to Washington. I just wanted to serve the people of North Carolina, right here where I’ve lived all my life. But these are not ordinary times.

Right now, our country is facing a moment as fragile as any I can remember, and the decisions we make in the next election will determine if we even have a middle class in America anymore.

But these are not ordinary times.

I want to serve as your next United States Senator, because, even now, I still believe our best days are ahead.

Today, for too many Americans, the middle class feels like a distant dream.