In fact, we love federal workers. Whatever your skills, we value public service.

Sharia law is not allowed in Texas. Nor are Sharia cities. Nor are 'no go zones' which this project seems to imply.

We labored under a king 250 years ago, and, as I said, we're not going back there.

Oh, yes, it's going to the courts, and I believe we will be victorious in the courts, and this program will continue.

What he's doing is – they've described it as flooding the zone. They're attacking California when it comes to FEMA dollars. They're filing lawsuits in Illinois. They're going after Maine on this, and they're coming after programs that have…

No one else should be able to second-guess us, because that's not how our system of laws and states was set up.

I will deal with the internal issues before me without interference from New Jersey or, indeed, the federal government.

We will see you in court.

With all due respect to the state of New Jersey, they do not tell us in New York what to do, nor does Washington.

We have to be smart as Democrats and as leaders and parse through all this and just go do what's right.

I have to be able to put in safeguards. Of course, everyone says I had the option to remove him. I still hold that option to remove him.

I respond this way. With all due respect to the state of New Jersey, they do not tell us in New York what to do, nor does Washington, when it comes to policies that we believe are going to reduce congestion.

They are targeting criminals & illegal immigrants. I have worked with Tom Homan on this for months.

Colony Ridge is being targeted today.

We will not sit idly by and let our rights be attacked.

I have to be the firewall to stop that.

Ignoring the guidelines and firing JAGs suggests the administration is attempting to build a military of loyalists focused less on our safety and more on loyalty to MAGA and Trump.

Last night at the Pentagon, President Trump and Secretary Hegseth dismantled a core principle of American democracy: the apolitical military.