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Sean Duffy
@seanduffy· Republican · WI· Aug 13, 2025

I run this department, and again, I didn’t want someone on the outside trying to tell me to fire people.

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Sean Duffy
@seanduffy· Republican · WI· Aug 13, 2025

Had I done that, had I actually fired controllers, oh, my—think what the liberal media would do to me.

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Sean Duffy
@seanduffy· Republican · WI· Aug 13, 2025

Elon — or no one else — is the Secretary. I am. The Senate confirmed me.

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Sean Duffy
@seanduffy· Republican · WI· Aug 13, 2025

Safety critical positions are not going to be fired within the Department of Transportation.

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Elise Stefanik
@elisestefanik· Republican · NY· Aug 13, 2025

The union representing Correction Officers stated they warned Kathy Hochul before their strike that prisons were a dangerous powder keg, a strike was imminent, and that lives of officers were at risk. Hochul did nothing.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Aug 13, 2025

I’m thrilled to announce I’m appointing Jack Schlossberg to the America 250 Commission.

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Elise Stefanik
@elisestefanik· Republican · NY· Aug 13, 2025

What did she know, when did she know it, and why did she refuse to act?

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Aug 13, 2025

And I know you will be there to make sure when we celebrate our 250th birthday, we remember that America’s a nation of justice, equal justice, of unity, E Pluribus Unum, of treating everyone with dignity.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Aug 13, 2025

Why am I putting Jack there? We know that Donald Trump will try to aggrandize the whole thing and make it part of him and his ego.

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Glenn Ivey
@glennivey· Democratic · MD· Aug 12, 2025

Now, when a former DOGE staffer is assaulted, he suddenly scrambles to call in the Guard and even tries to federalize local police.

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Karen Bass
@karenbass· Democratic · CA· Aug 12, 2025

Well, it absolutely is. But flex, dosing, to me, they’re trying to see how much are we going to tolerate?

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 12, 2025

Congrats to the DNC for starting the process to ban Big Money from presidential primaries.

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Nancy Pelosi
@nancypelosi· Democratic · CA· Aug 12, 2025

Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at stake.

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Elise Stefanik
@elisestefanik· Republican · NY· Aug 12, 2025

It has decayed. And we’ve watched the city of New York and the state of New York decay under single-party Democrat rule.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 12, 2025

Billionaire-funded super PACs like AIPAC and Crypto shouldn't be able to undermine democracy and determine Democratic candidates.

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Elise Stefanik
@elisestefanik· Republican · NY· Aug 12, 2025

We have one opportunity to save our state, and that’s to defeat Mamdani but also fire Kathy Hochul next year.

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Colin Allred
@colinallred· Democratic · TX· Aug 12, 2025

I think he would say to us: We are better than this. And I think he would say: If you do this, then we have to mobilize in a way we’ve never seen before.

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Elise Stefanik
@elisestefanik· Republican · NY· Aug 12, 2025

A true Marxist and communist he is, Sean, rules for thee but not for me.

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