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

This agency fundamentally needs to go away as it exists, and we need to have a response to states that supports them when terrible things come.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jun 8, 2025

What I would say is that the law is going to be enforced, and that I – what the laws are in this country is what we are doing.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jun 8, 2025

You will not stop us or slow us down.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jun 8, 2025

This president cares deeply about family members that want to live in their communities and be safe.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

We talked for almost 20 minutes, and he barely — this issue never came up.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

In dynamic and fluid situations such as the one in Los Angeles, State and local authorities are the most appropriate ones to evaluate the need for resources and safeguard life and property.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

The level of escalation is completely unwarranted, uncalled for, and unprecedented.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

These are the acts of a dictator, not a president.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

He’s hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

This is a day I hoped I would never see in America.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

The Secretary of Defense is now threatening to deploy active-duty Marines on American soil against its own citizens. This is deranged behavior.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

If you deploy the National Guard, it’s going to be very incendiary, and things are going to erupt, and that creates a public safety problem.

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Abigail Spanberger
@abigailspanberger· Democratic · VA· Jun 8, 2025

Virginia is the last bastion of reproductive freedom in the South—and Virginians want it to stay that way.

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