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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 18, 2025

Yeah, I mean look, now that I have a nine-year-old, just became nine, come on, man.

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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Jul 18, 2025

It really is best for the economic conditions in our country that the markets understand that the Fed really is independent.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 18, 2025

Have you ever seen these Democrats in Florida fight this hard for you as an American citizen?

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 18, 2025

These are folks — and a lot of them have of criminal records. But that’s what’s happening here, and I think it’s been very effective now.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 18, 2025

But what I don’t want to do is set up Blanding, if, you know, one is 60 percent full and then the other is 40 percent [full].

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 18, 2025

I’m willing to do Blanding once Alligator Alcatraz is filled, and so DHS has started moving in a significant number of people.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 18, 2025

This is a heartbreaking day for California.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 18, 2025

What you saw happen in Texas was much more how FEMA will look in the future. It won’t look like the response to [Hurricane] Katrina, or the response to even [Hurricane] Helene, and what happened in North Carolina, where people waited weeks…

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Rick Scott
@rickscott· Republican · FL· Jul 18, 2025

American taxpayers deserve answers and accountability. President Trump is right: Jay Powell has been very bad for our country, and it’s time for him to go.

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Rick Scott
@rickscott· Republican · FL· Jul 18, 2025

Powell has been a total disaster at the Federal Reserve, accruing over a trillion dollars in losses and mismanaging the central bank at the expense of American families.

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Rick Scott
@rickscott· Republican · FL· Jul 18, 2025

If the goal were to lose trillions of dollars and get mired in scandals, Jay Powell would be the gold standard—but that’s not the goal.

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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Jul 18, 2025

In order for me to support this legislation, we had to find a way to continue support for these radio stations which offer potentially life saving information in some of the most rural parts of our nation.

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Andy Beshear
@andybeshear· Democratic · KY· Jul 18, 2025

Make no mistake, what Trump and his congressional enablers have just done is a direct attack on rural America and on Southerners like us. It is a betrayal.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 18, 2025

We can sit on the sidelines and talk about the way the world should be, or we could recognize the existential nature that is this moment

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 18, 2025

I am grateful that the legislature recognized the need for a new standalone agency dedicated to addressing these vexing issues that continue to face our state and nation, so that these issues will never fall into the shadows again.

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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Jul 17, 2025

It will keep them in operation. It will be for one year at a time.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 17, 2025

That’s why our one time $3 billion inflation rebate is now a $2 billion inflation rebate, cutting a program that I believe in, but also trying to be cognizant of the fact that we may need that money for future challenges.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 17, 2025

I know we had some instinct that this would happen, something would happen.

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Phil Murphy
@philmurphy· Democratic · NJ· Jul 17, 2025

All injured have been transported by first responders. Please pray for everyone involved in this tragic incident.

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