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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Sep 3, 2025

Both sides recognize that we need to get something done, and I sincerely hope my Republican colleagues don’t stand in the way.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Sep 3, 2025

Families are already struggling with high costs, and allowing these tax credits to expire would make things much worse for working Americans.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Sep 3, 2025

This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try and intimidate his political rivals.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 3, 2025

Thank you to Governor Landry for his partnership to help remove the worst of the worst out of our country.

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Jeff Landry
@jefflandry· LA· Sep 3, 2025

Louisiana Lockup will give ICE the space it needs to lock up some of the worst criminal illegal aliens — murderers, rapists, pedophiles, drug traffickers, and gang members — so they can no longer threaten our families and communities.

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Jeff Landry
@jefflandry· LA· Sep 3, 2025

Criminal illegal aliens beware: Louisiana Lockup is where your time in America ends.

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Doug Burgum
@dougburgum· Republican · ND· Sep 3, 2025

Joe Biden said it out loud, ‘No more drilling on federal land,'

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Sep 3, 2025

We’re going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Sep 3, 2025

The Florida MAHA commission will prioritize reforms that empower Floridians, reduce regulatory burdens and hold actors accountable for their conduct, while fostering incentives for healthy living and innovation.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Sep 3, 2025

The commission will be chaired by Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and Florida first lady Casey DeSantis.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Sep 3, 2025

I don’t think there’s another state that’s done as much as Florida. We want to stay ahead of the curve.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 2, 2025

For decades these bureaucrats engaged in every act imaginable except safeguarding the American people from natural disasters. That ends now.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 2, 2025

Under President Trump’s leadership, we are cleaning house at FEMA to make this dysfunctional agency work for the American people the way that it was intended.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 2, 2025

These individuals had access to critical information and intelligence and were entrusted to safeguard Americans from emergencies—and instead they were consuming pornography.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 2, 2025

This individual was a known human smuggler, MS-13 gang member, an individual who’s a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 2, 2025

No president is a king — not even Trump — and no president can trample a state’s power to protect its people.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 2, 2025

DONALD TRUMP LOSES AGAIN. The courts agree — his militarization of our streets and use of the military against US citizens is ILLEGAL.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 2, 2025

Now is the time for us to continue making the progress we're making here in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I'm going to focus on that.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 2, 2025

Now is not a time to disrupt that with distrust, the way the president is doing in other communities.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 2, 2025

I'm the former chief law enforcement officer of this commonwealth, and I understand what communities need to do to make people safe.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 2, 2025

Ever since the president made what I think is a wrongheaded decision to take the guard away from the governor and put them on the streets of Los Angeles, we are, have been preparing for such a thing to happen here in Philadelphia.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Sep 2, 2025

One violent crime is too many, and we have more work to do.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Sep 2, 2025

There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Sep 2, 2025

No, I will not call the president asking him to send troops to Chicago.

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