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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Sep 5, 2025

So I’m here to announce today that we are authorizing and will be soon be opening this new illegal immigration detention processing and deportation facility here in North Florida. We are calling this the Deportation Depot.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 5, 2025

The CDC has become a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science, ideology that will lead to severe health consequences.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 5, 2025

President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists — and his blatant politicization of the agency — is a direct assault on the health and safety of the American people.

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Kathleen Hochul
@kathleenhochul· Democratic · NY· Sep 5, 2025

I promised New Yorkers that their family would be my fight. In the absence of federal leadership, we must do everything we can to ensure that New Yorkers have access to the vaccines and preventative healthcare they have come to rely on.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Sep 5, 2025

It’s not going to take forever, but we’re also not rushing to do it right this day. They’re doing what they need to do to get it done in all deliberate speed. So I’m proud of them for their work. Florida is making a difference. This is a…

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 5, 2025

California, Oregon, and Washington will not allow the people of our states to be put at risk.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 5, 2025

They have a pattern of hiding the truth when it doesn’t fit their narrative.

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Kathleen Hochul
@kathleenhochul· Democratic · NY· Sep 5, 2025

By signing this executive order, we are sending a clear message that when Washington Republicans play politics with public health, New Yorkers can still get the care they need, close to home, from trusted providers in their own communities.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 5, 2025

Do you accept the fact that a million Americans died from COVID?

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Kathleen Hochul
@kathleenhochul· Democratic · NY· Sep 5, 2025

Contrary to what the president thinks, he’s not a king, he’s not a kingmaker, and he should not be anointing the next mayor of New York City.

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Kathleen Hochul
@kathleenhochul· Democratic · NY· Sep 5, 2025

There will be a sense that people are compromised if they’re getting the road cleared because of who the president wants as the next mayor that he believes he can control, clearly that’s why he’s doing it. I have to stand up against that.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Sep 4, 2025

Alligator Alcatraz is, in fact, like we’ve always said, open for business.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 4, 2025

The notorious prison—built on a former slave plantation and still infamous for farm labor and abuse allegations—was chosen to encourage self-deportation.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 4, 2025

The safety of our public officials should never be subject to erratic, vindictive political impulses.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 4, 2025

You purge your independent intelligence community and make them loyal not to a constitution but something else.

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