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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 1, 2025

We’re working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that. Because what they’re doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities, operations.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 1, 2025

If you obstruct or assault our law enforcement, we will hunt you down and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 1, 2025

These rioters are cowards who’ll keep challenging us as long as they think they can get away with it.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 1, 2025

These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America, that we’re trying to target and get out of our country because they are so deranged they don’t belong here.

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George W. Bush
@georgewbush· Republican · TX· Jul 1, 2025

Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.

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Ned Lamont
@nedlamont· Democratic · CT· Jul 1, 2025

affordable housing is the biggest key to affordability in our state and I think across the country

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Ned Lamont
@nedlamont· Democratic · CT· Jul 1, 2025

I think he is a big deal. I think he’s transformative.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 1, 2025

This deployment comes when California is in the midst of peak wildfire season for both Northern and Southern California and may need to rely on their crucial support.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 1, 2025

This was too urgent, too important, to allow the process to unfold as it has for the last generation.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 1, 2025

The state argued that under the law cited by the administration, Mr. Trump does not have the legal authority to call up the Guard without permission from the governor.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 1, 2025

We have too much demand chasing too little supply.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 1, 2025

It's about the reputation of the state of California.

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Larry Rhoden
@larryrhoden· SD· Jul 1, 2025

There is a lot of concern that we’ll see in coming time that it is unfounded and that we can get along just right, honoring and respecting our Second Amendment rights the way they were intended.

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Larry Rhoden
@larryrhoden· SD· Jul 1, 2025

For years and years, law enforcement, there was a lot of wringing of the hands about what could happen with constitutional carry. None of that proved to be true. That was six years since we’ve passed that law.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jun 30, 2025

If it was important enough to tweet it, it would seem to me it was important enough to notify this committee.

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George W. Bush
@georgewbush· Republican · TX· Jun 30, 2025

Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.

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