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

Any issues that were there [at the detention center] have been addressed.

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

I'm also very proud of the fact that I have the super advisory authority over the U.S. Coast Guard.

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Rick Scott
@rickscott· Republican · FL· Jul 13, 2025

Every elected official of New York on the Democratic side seems like they’re just recruiting people to move to Florida. It’s just insanity.

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

I'm so proud of them because for the very first time, we acted in a way that disaster response should, you know.

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

It needs to be redeployed in a new way, and that’s what we did during this response.

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Rick Scott
@rickscott· Republican · FL· Jul 13, 2025

Don’t know what these Democrats think they are doing. Who do they represent?

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

The way statute lays out is that every emergency that happens in this country should be locally executed.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 13, 2025

California prosecutes child exploiters and traffickers. Trump tear-gasses children, rips them from their parents, and deports farmworkers. Priorities.

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

What I’m doing right now is trying to be a reasonable voice out there that hopefully doesn’t just bring Democrats back together, but Democrats, Republicans and independents.

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

We should be there to support. We shouldn't be making the decisions.

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

He isn’t looking to eliminate the agency but simply wants to see it 'remade.'

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

The work requirements, they are a ruse, they’re doubling the paperwork on everyone, not just able-bodied adults but everyone.

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

It’s not just FEMA that can respond in these situations because the federal government has all kinds of assets, and we deployed them.

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

It needs to be redeployed, in a new way, and that’s what we did during this response.

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

It is wrong and cruel, but also devastating to the rural economies.

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

The president recognises that FEMA should not exist in the way that it always has been.

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