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Adam Schiff
@adamschiff· Democratic · CA· Apr 9, 2025

If Congress is to retain any credibility as a branch of government coequal to the executive, it must assert its investigative powers now.

thenation.com
Adam Schiff
@adamschiff· Democratic · CA· Apr 9, 2025

Trump is creating giant market fluctuations with his on-again, off-again tariffs.

truthout.org
Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Apr 9, 2025

The budget resolution that passed the House today will set in motion some of the most extreme cuts to health care, nutritional assistance and the things that matter to everyday Americans in our nation's nearly 250-year history.

cbsnews.com
Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Apr 9, 2025

need to get to the bottom of the possible stock manipulation that is unfolding before the American people

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Apr 9, 2025

Republicans are playing games with the budget numbers to conceal from public view drastic cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and other popular programs that are needed to pay for tax cuts that primarily benefit wealthy billionaires like Elon Musk.

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Rashida Tlaib
@rashidatlaib· Democratic · MI· Apr 9, 2025

Republicans are ramming through a budget that includes $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid and at least $230 billion in cuts to food assistance to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

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Rashida Tlaib
@rashidatlaib· Democratic · MI· Apr 9, 2025

Make no mistake: Republicans want to give away trillions of dollars to the richest people in our country like Elon Musk, and they want to pay for it by taking food away from hungry children and letting people die from a lack of healthcare…

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Thomas Massie
@thomasmassie· Republican · KY· Apr 9, 2025

I don't believe they're going to make any cuts of any consequence.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Apr 9, 2025

I’m not going to let them manufacture smears to try to tarnish my reputation.

thehill.com
Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Apr 9, 2025

the state would conduct its own investigation and could bring charges that aren’t available at the federal level.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Apr 9, 2025

This is kind of like a cherry on top where they agreed to make an additional contribution, and so we were served well by what AHCA did.

thehill.com
Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Apr 9, 2025

The state would conduct its own investigation and could bring charges that aren't available at the federal level.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 9, 2025

What he wants is power and wealth for his oligarch friends. So nothing would surprise me about Trump.

cnn.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 9, 2025

We don’t have to hate China. We don’t have to hate other people. Let’s figure out a way to work together.

cnn.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 9, 2025

In the year 2025, in the richest country in the history of world, nobody should be forced to work for starvation wages.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 9, 2025

We need the Republicans to understand that workers in their states can’t make it on $7.25 and $10 an hour, they have got to join us and help us raise that minimum wage to $17 an hour.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 9, 2025

There’s some kind of mythology out there that the only people working for minimum wage are kids trying to make some extra spending money … and that is not the case.

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