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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Apr 8, 2025

I think it’s a problem that we are losing the middle.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Apr 8, 2025

If the Democrats can’t compete in the Midwest and the Great Plains, then the path back to majority is going to be a long time coming.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Apr 8, 2025

One of the things I learned as governor is that you don’t have the luxury of saying, ‘I’m not going to work with this person and I’m not going to solve this problem.’

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Apr 8, 2025

It’s not just gotten more partisan, but the base has gotten to the point where, if you work with the other side, that’s considered by some to be a negative character trait.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Apr 7, 2025

It will increase maternal deaths and increase poverty, eliminate support for family planning programs in developing countries.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Apr 7, 2025

I look forward to speaking with Rubio about the devastating consequences the cuts would have around the world.

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Kevin Stitt
@kevinstitt· Republican · OK· Apr 7, 2025

We’ve been DOGE-ing in Oklahoma before it was cool.

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Kim Reynolds
@kimreynolds· Republican · IA· Apr 7, 2025

I like to say we were doing DOGE before DOGE was a thing.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Apr 4, 2025

The power to impose tariffs is one the Constitution gives to Congress—not the president.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Apr 3, 2025

I'll fight back against Trump tariffs, seek exemptions from trade partners.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Apr 3, 2025

I’m drafting a plan to force a vote on nixing the national emergency Trump declared Wednesday, which would effectively scrap the across-the-board tariffs set to kick in Saturday.

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Jim Justice
@jimjustice· Republican · WV· Apr 2, 2025

You've got to grow. And that’s what I believe our president’s trying to do.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Apr 2, 2025

Many more than four Republicans were interested in his resolution than ultimately voted for it.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Apr 2, 2025

They call it democracy. Mayor Adams can run as an independent if he chooses.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Apr 1, 2025

Do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on our defense of Black people, of trans kids, of immigrants — instead of their own lack of guts and gumption.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Apr 1, 2025

The will of the voters and the supremacy and sanctity of democratic elections precluded her from doing so.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Apr 1, 2025

Many of my Republican colleagues in Congress have already expressed concerns about these tariffs.

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Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Apr 1, 2025

These Tariffs are nearly 10x the size of those imposed during the Trump-Pence Administration and will cost American families over $3,500 per year.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Mar 31, 2025

Other nations are having to engage in hedging behaviors because they thought we were friends and now they doubt that reality anymore. And so as you look at the signs of these economic times--and then I will get to a second question about…

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Mar 31, 2025

Well, thank you to my friend, Senator Booker, and to all who are gathered to watch this very, very important vigil. And the question that I am going to ask in slow motion to give you a chance to think of a response--

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Mar 31, 2025

I want to ask you questions about veterans in this country, but before I do, you talk a lot about courage.

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