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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 29, 2025

But our Republican colleagues don’t seem to be offering anything different than what their leadership has had so far.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 29, 2025

No explanation, no justification, just plain cruelty from a man who only serves himself — Donald Trump is picking politics over the lives of hungry kids.

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Marsha Blackburn
@marshablackburn· Republican · TN· Oct 29, 2025

I am looking forward to bringing Jack Smith before us.

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Jim Jordan
@jimjordan· Republican · OH· Oct 29, 2025

Those are the kind of questions we want to ask Jack Smith, to see what kind of answers we get from the guy who ran this whole operation.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 29, 2025

Just weeks ago, Trump’s own US Department of Agriculture confirmed in writing that contingency funds — about $6 billion in emergency reserves — were ‘available to fund participant benefits,'

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 29, 2025

He is weaponizing hunger, turning millions of children, seniors and veterans into political pawns to score points in his shutdown fight.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 29, 2025

Starving children will put pressure on members of Congress? Well, that’s a good moral position.

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Josh Gottheimer
@joshgottheimer· Democratic · NJ· Oct 29, 2025

Open the government and let’s just vote on extending these premiums for a year or more.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Oct 29, 2025

He sounds like a human being to me, a human being who made mistakes, recognizes them and is very open about it.

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Roger Wicker
@rogerwicker· Republican · MS· Oct 29, 2025

This decision … sends the wrong signal to Russia at the very moment President Trump is applying pressure to force Vladimir Putin to come to the table to achieve a lasting peace in Ukraine.

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Oct 29, 2025

Everything we've been doing here, and the whole reason that we're in Washington, even though the Republicans are not, is to demand that they come back, reopen the government, restore health care to everybody, and get past this crisis.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 29, 2025

On November 1, people in more than 30 states are going to be aghast when they see their bills and they're going to cry out, and I believe there will be increased pressure on Republicans to negotiate with us.

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Jim Jordan
@jimjordan· Republican · OH· Oct 29, 2025

This is why we want [former special counsel] Jack Smith in front of our committee in a deposition format.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 28, 2025

Every American who wakes up in the morning to get a cup of java is paying a price for Donald Trump’s reckless, ridiculous, and almost childish tariffs.

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James Comer
@jamescomer· Republican · KY· Oct 28, 2025

The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history.

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Ruben Gallego
@rubengallego· Oct 28, 2025

If this president feels that they’re doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Oct 28, 2025

[T]here cannot be a regular legislative session so long as the government is closed and Americans are feeling so much pain.

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