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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Oct 2, 2025

When Congress turns off the funding, and the funding runs out, it’s up to the commander in chief, the president of the United States, will determine how those resources will be spent.

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Jasmine Crockett
@jasminecrockett· Democratic · TX· Oct 2, 2025

Instead of just saying, ‘We’re currently in a shutdown,’ you decided to play partisan politics on an official website, and I guess there is no limit to what they won’t do, because they do the exact same thing when we walk into committee.

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Maxine Waters
@maxinewaters· Democratic · CA· Oct 2, 2025

Democrats are demanding health care for everybody.

nypost.com
Adam Schiff
@adamschiff· Oct 2, 2025

Our democracy is badly broken when a president can illegally suspend projects for Blue states in order to punish his political enemies.

politico.com
Jasmine Crockett
@jasminecrockett· Democratic · TX· Oct 2, 2025

Because we are not allowed to politic on official sites, period. Right? And that’s what they’re doing.

thehill.com
Jasmine Crockett
@jasminecrockett· Democratic · TX· Oct 2, 2025

I think they’re being a lot more illegal in their messaging. The first thing that I wanted to know was, how can this not be a violation of the Hatch Act in some way? Right?

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Jasmine Crockett
@jasminecrockett· Democratic · TX· Oct 2, 2025

Instead of us having real committee hearings where we are actually able to get information that may somehow help the American people understand what’s going on, instead, it’s always a campaign rally that they’re doing when we walk into…

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Martin Heinrich
@martinheinrich· Democratic · NM· Oct 2, 2025

Minutes before the news of these cancelled projects broke, I had just left lunch with [Energy] Secretary [Chris] Wright and he had neither the courtesy nor the care to mention that this was coming.

cnbc.com
Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 2, 2025

Americans see it clearly: They know Trump governs by chaos and welcomes this shutdown — and that Republicans are following his orders to maximize pain. That cruelty is already backfiring.

nbcnews.com
Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Oct 2, 2025

I quite literally have nothing to negotiate.

msnbc.com
Rob Garcia
@robgarcia· Democratic · KS· Oct 2, 2025

These likely violations of federal law.

msnbc.com
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Oct 2, 2025

It is so important to understand that these people are all talk. They are all talk. They are negotiating with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, and Democratic leadership and Democrats are united to that end.

nbcnews.com
Rob Garcia
@robgarcia· Democratic · KS· Oct 2, 2025

I want the Office of the Special Counsel to investigate.

msnbc.com
Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 2, 2025

Instead of playing politics with the shutdown, President Trump should be working on bipartisan solutions to lower Americans' costs and create jobs.

cnbc.com
Abigail Spanberger
@abigailspanberger· Democratic · VA· Oct 1, 2025

Virginia families are already feeling the strain of high costs, and Virginia workers and business leaders are deeply worried about the impacts of an impending shutdown and the jobs cuts the Trump Administration is threatening.

nbcnews.com
Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Oct 1, 2025

The Trump administration is targeting the jobs, thousands of jobs of hard-working Americans. Working-class Americans and blue collar Americans will lose the ability to work at the Second Avenue Subway site or at the other project that has…

cbsnews.com
Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Oct 1, 2025

As Donald Trump’s lawlessness grows during this shutdown, our spines should stiffen, not bend.

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