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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 2, 2025

Today, the court sided with democracy and the Constitution. No president is a king — not even Trump — and no president can trample a state's power to protect its people.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 2, 2025

For decades these bureaucrats engaged in every act imaginable except safeguarding the American people from natural disasters. That ends now.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 2, 2025

no president is a king — not even Trump — and no president can trample a state’s power to protect its people.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 2, 2025

Mr. Trump's use of the military as his personal police force is illegal, authoritarian, and must be stopped in every courtroom across this country.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 2, 2025

Now is not a time to disrupt that with distrust, the way the president is doing in other communities.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 2, 2025

These individuals had access to critical information and intelligence and were entrusted to safeguard Americans from emergencies—and instead they were consuming pornography.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 2, 2025

I'm the former chief law enforcement officer of this commonwealth, and I understand what communities need to do to make people safe.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 2, 2025

Under President Trump’s leadership, we are cleaning house at FEMA to make this dysfunctional agency work for the American people the way that it was intended.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 2, 2025

Now is the time for us to continue making the progress we're making here in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I'm going to focus on that.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

The one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn’t walk free in the United States of America.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

This individual was a known human smuggler, a MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors, and even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it…

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

He’s not an American citizen and he shouldn’t be here and especially because of his dangerous criminal activities, we should ensure that we leave every avenue on the table.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

So he needs to never be in the United States of America and our administration is making sure we’re doing all that we can to bring him to justice.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

President Trump and I are putting the American worker FIRST. Happy Labor Day!

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

This Labor Day, America works for Americans again.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

that always is a prerogative of President Trump and his decision

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

Well, for 13 consecutive years, Chicago had more murders than any other American city.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

If he has one murder in the city of Chicago, he should be calling President Trump and saying, what's your ideas?

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