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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 8, 2025

I think Washington needs to be overhauled 100%, but I just don’t think a third party is going to do it.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders
@sarahhuckabeesanders· Republican · AR· Jul 8, 2025

Not any more. These massive corporations are attacking our state because we will be the first in the country to hold them accountable for their anticompetitive actions, but Arkansas has never been afraid to be a conservative leader for…

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders
@sarahhuckabeesanders· Republican · AR· Jul 8, 2025

For far too long, drug middlemen called PBMs have taken advantage of lax regulations to abuse customers, inflate drug prices, and cut off access to critical medications.

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Jeff Landry
@jefflandry· LA· Jul 8, 2025

PBMs are not health care providers. They are corporate profiteers inserted into the most intimate part of your life and your health.

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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Jul 8, 2025

It’s going to be something that will be looked at

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders
@sarahhuckabeesanders· Republican · AR· Jul 8, 2025

A country has to be able to feed itself, fuel itself, and fight for itself to truly be free.

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

A country that cannot feed itself, cannot take care of itself, and cannot provide for itself, is not secure, and we have to be able to feed ourselves to make sure that no other country ever controls us.

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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Jul 8, 2025

He could not stop talking about how sad he was for all the little girls who have lost their lives.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 8, 2025

Just when you thought Palm Beach real estate couldn't go any higher

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

The visit was 'very emotional' and 'just so tragic,'

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

The parents that were looking for their children and picking up their daughters' stuffed animals out of the mud and finding their daughter's shoe that might be laying in the cabin and, just hugging and comforting people matters a lot.

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

I walked over to him and I hugged him and said, 'Do you work here?'

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

On the 6 month anniversary of the LA wildfires Donald Trump decided to send troops on horseback to round people up on soccer fields instead of delivering what LA actually needs — the emergency aid that he continues to play games with. What…

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Jul 8, 2025

Over 300,000 Pennsylvanians stand to lose their Medicaid coverage as a result of the federal budget bill that passed the House and Senate last week. 300,000. Congressional Republicans knew the devastating impacts this bill would have on…

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

I believe PreCheck will still be something many travelers will want to utilize.

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

TSA will no longer require travelers to remove their shoes when they go through our security checkpoints.

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

Temporary Protected Status was designed to be just that — temporary.

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John Hoeven
@johnhoeven· Republican · ND· Jul 8, 2025

The science shows there's warming but there's different opinions on the cause.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Jul 8, 2025

Our proposal is also consistent with virtually every other pension plan — state and private — currently operating in our country, and it matches the strategy most nations use to fund their retirement programs.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Jul 8, 2025

The Treasury would temporarily shoulder the burden of providing benefits to Social Security beneficiaries — but when the new fund’s 75 years are up, it would pay the Treasury back and supplement payroll taxes to help fill the future gap.

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

Attempted to block the federal incursion in California and later filed a lawsuit against Trump.

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Tony Evers
@tonyevers· Democratic · WI· Jul 8, 2025

By blocking the rule, the legislative committee is taking over powers that the state constitution assigns to the governor and exercising an unconstitutional 'legislative veto.'

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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Jul 8, 2025

The spirit of Texas is alive and well and strong and we're going to keep looking until everyone is found.

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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Jul 8, 2025

We're going to address every aspect of this storm to make sure we're going to have in place the systems that are needed to prevent deadly flooding events like this in the future.

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