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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

In dynamic and fluid situations such as the one in Los Angeles, State and local authorities are the most appropriate ones to evaluate the need for resources and safeguard life and property.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

We talked for almost 20 minutes, and he barely — this issue never came up.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

He’s hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

If you deploy the National Guard, it’s going to be very incendiary, and things are going to erupt, and that creates a public safety problem.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

The Secretary of Defense is now threatening to deploy active-duty Marines on American soil against its own citizens. This is deranged behavior.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

The level of escalation is completely unwarranted, uncalled for, and unprecedented.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

This is a day I hoped I would never see in America.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 8, 2025

These are the acts of a dictator, not a president.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 7, 2025

The Secretary of Defense is now threatening to deploy active-duty Marines on American soil against its own citizens. This is deranged behavior.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 7, 2025

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 7, 2025

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 7, 2025

This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they're actually needed.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 6, 2025

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 6, 2025

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

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Michelle Fischbach
@michellefischbach· Republican · MN· Jun 4, 2025

What is astonishing is that my Democrat colleague finally admitted what we have been telling the American people for weeks. As I mentioned, we are talking about the illegal immigrants in light of the CBO score that 1.4 million illegal…

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Michelle Fischbach
@michellefischbach· Republican · MN· Jun 4, 2025

I rise to congratulate Dominique Claseman and Ahren Jurgensen of Olivia, Minnesota, on raising nearly $120,000 for a veterans memorial in their hometown. Mr. Speaker, 3 years ago, Dominique raised over $77,000 to construct a memorial for…

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· May 30, 2025

Not everybody that disagrees with us is a misogynist.

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