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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Mar 15, 2025

One thing we did not do was offer an alternative. One thing we did not do was articulate the terms for the American people.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Mar 14, 2025

But once you draw first blood on us, we're coming back hard. And I will be leading the resistance on policies like these where you're hurting New Yorkers directly.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Mar 14, 2025

There is a huge disconnect between the reality we know that New Yorkers are facing and the perception of reality out of the White House.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Mar 14, 2025

I'm here to say New York hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years. We sure as hell are not gonna start now.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Mar 14, 2025

We offered up an olive branch. [We said] 'We'll work with you on infrastructure. Let's redo Penn Station'.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Mar 13, 2025

I thought, much as I didn’t like the CR, I thought a government shutdown would be worse.

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Andy Beshear
@andybeshear· Democratic · KY· Mar 13, 2025

When those individuals marched, there wasn’t one voice. There was a collective courage of that group that changed the world.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Mar 13, 2025

We’re stuck with two bad choices presented by a unified Republican front.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Mar 13, 2025

I have total respect for the folks who reached another conclusion, and the idea that they would have had a shutdown that would have put us into the abyss with, unfortunately, parts of this administration, doesn’t follow the law.

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Andy Beshear
@andybeshear· Democratic · KY· Mar 13, 2025

There was a collective courage of that group that changed the world.

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John Hickenlooper
@johnhickenlooper· Democratic · CO· Mar 13, 2025

These are two horrible options. … He did what was right. That’s what a leader does.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Mar 13, 2025

I am glad to see one of the Columbia University terrorist sympathizers use the CBP Home app to self-deport.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Mar 13, 2025

When you advocate for violence and terrorism that privilege should be revoked, and you should not be in this country.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Mar 13, 2025

It is a privilege to be granted a visa to live and study in the United States of America.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Mar 12, 2025

I will do anything possible to make sure that we win in ‘28. I do not need to be on that ticket.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Mar 12, 2025

I’m a catalyst to provide them a megaphone to lift up their voice.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Mar 12, 2025

I’m going to tell them that it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Mar 12, 2025

I always feared that they would become apathetic after this last election and just check out, but they are not doing that.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Mar 12, 2025

There was just a primal scream of folks recognizing what’s going on with the Trump administration, their authoritarian tendencies, and what they viewed was a lack of a proper response from their representatives.

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Martin O'Malley
@martinomalley· Mar 12, 2025

The greatest amount of waste in operational history by paying people not to work.

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Martin O'Malley
@martinomalley· Mar 12, 2025

They are communicating to people if you don't take the cash and get out now, you are taking the chance of being fired and playing the game of Russian Roulette that follows.

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