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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

They're trying to bring us back to a pre-1960s world on voting rights—you know it well.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

It’s not what happens to us, it’s how we respond to it. And our opportunity presents itself anew.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

Of the United States of America, he wants the divided states.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

I think it’s really important for Democrats that we spend time in parts of our states, parts of our country, that frankly, we haven’t spent enough time in, and so that’s why I’m here.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

It's a moment that few of us could have imagined.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

What we’re experiencing is America in reverse.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

So my call to you is to recognize that you can shape the future. The future is not just some experience. It's something to manifest. The future is inside of you. It's decisions, not conditions, that will determine our fate and future.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

'No court has adopted the interpretation of Title IX that is being advanced by the Trump Admin'

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

We cannot be complicit at this moment by being passive at this moment.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

We cannot sit back and be bystanders at this moment. We've got to assert ourselves.

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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

If you do appropriations in the Senate, you have 60 votes to support it. If you do rescissions, you can take it back with 50, which then makes it tougher to get a bipartisan agreement on an appropriations package.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

We, as a federal government, don’t manage these disasters. The state does.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

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

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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

We are aware of the sensitivities of using a rescissions package versus the appropriations process.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

If Harvard won't defend the interests of its students, then we will.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

We’re just getting started, we’ve implemented several transformational changes.

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