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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 21, 2025

There’s absolutely zero reason that someone who is scum of the earth like this should be running loose on the streets of New York City.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 21, 2025

We, again, call upon them to do the right thing and end the militarization once and for all.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 21, 2025

There was never a need for the military to deploy against civilians in Los Angeles.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 21, 2025

The women and men of the California National Guard deserve more than to continue serving as puppets in Trump and Stephen Miller’s performative political theater.

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Josh Stein
@joshstein· NC· Jul 21, 2025

We need to have stability, businesses need certainty, so they can figure out how and where to invest.

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Tina Kotek
@tinakotek· Democratic · OR· Jul 20, 2025

The summer is only getting hotter, drier, and more dangerous – we have to be prepared for worsening conditions.

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Tina Kotek
@tinakotek· Democratic · OR· Jul 20, 2025

Oregon is already experiencing a devastating wildfire season that will have lasting consequences.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Jul 20, 2025

We either win or even I will move to Florida. God forbid!

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Jul 19, 2025

It’s all or nothing. We either win or even I will move to Florida. God forbid!

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 19, 2025

We would — we still need to have comprehensive immigration reform, regardless — because what I know from the big, beautiful bill is, we are now trying to figure out 250,000 people who are about to lose their health care.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 19, 2025

But that becomes my point, is that we’re continuing to watch these patchwork solutions, which, frankly, end up having really difficult consequences for our states and our jurisdictions, because we’re not actually having a comprehensive…

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 19, 2025

I’m very much okay with the idea that we have to be able to fix a completely broken immigration system.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 19, 2025

I think these are very serious times. And I think anyone, when we’re talking about what becomes the future for, not just the party, but for this country, I want to know, are you taking this moment seriously?

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 19, 2025

I would say, I’m not sure how telling a person who is doing things like making sure that our food is safe or making sure that our critical infrastructure is protected or making sure that veterans, like myself, I served, I led soldiers with…

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 19, 2025

We just saw how we just had the single largest loss of federal jobs in 30 years in the state of Maryland, month on month, with the month of June.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 19, 2025

But the thing that I also know is that this idea that we need quotas or arbitrary numbers, 3,000 people who are going to be deported every single day, that’s not a data-backed number.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 19, 2025

Oh, yeah. And — but I think what we have is we need to make sure that we understand and are following the Constitution on it.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 19, 2025

I know that we all know the solution is you’ve got to be able to secure the border, you have to be able to work to get violent criminals out of our neighborhoods.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Jul 19, 2025

The Senate Intelligence Committee conducted a bipartisan investigation reviewing hundreds of thousands of documents and interviewing witnesses over several years. The unanimous, bipartisan conclusion was that Russia interfered in the 2016…

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 19, 2025

We have put in place in TSA a multilayered screening process that allows us to change some of how we do security and screening so it’s still as safe.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 19, 2025

The liquids, I’m questioning. So that may be the next big announcement, is what size your liquids need to be.

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