"What's next, brown shirts?"
"Can’t help but wonder how many Trumps got rejected by Harvard."
"I’m not a great mathematician, but I think you were talking about $1 trillion? I believe $1.5 billion times 10 is $15 billion. That’s a little bit off from $1 trillion."
"President Trump has ushered America into a golden age of public corruption."
"We write to ask whether Treasury has conducted any analyses on the effect cutting up to 40% of the IRS workforce will have on revenue collection, customer service, modernization efforts, and the share..."
"Republicans just overruled the Parliamentarian, violated the plain text of the Congressional Review Act, changed the Clean Air Act, and broke the filibuster."
"The problem with your assertion here today is that it is belied by your own employees’ sworn statements in court and by the decision of the Department of Justice to admit that what you say isn’t true."
"I have always advocated for efficiency at the Department of Defense, but tough personnel decisions should be based on facts and analysis, not arbitrary percentages."
"Eliminating the positions of many of our most skilled and experienced officers without sound justification would not create ‘efficiency’ in the military — it could cripple it."
"Secretary Hegseth has shown an eagerness to dismiss military leaders without cause, and I will be skeptical of the rationale for these plans until he explains them before the Armed Services Committee."
"The question has to be posed to Secretary Hegseth whether he declassified the information and at what point he did declassify? Do you agree?"
"one of the most egregious failures of operational security and common sense"
"Military operations need to be handled with utmost discretion, using approved, secure lines of communication, because American lives are on the line."
"That is not my agenda. That is not a helpful narrative right now."
"We're in a fight for our democracy right now, and if we're having a fight in our dugout, we're not out on the field and the other team is scoring runs."
"Everybody in the caucus wants an opportunity to vote for a clean 30-day [continuing resolution] that puts us on a pathway to regular, legit appropriations."
"If DOJ and the FBI are aiding and abetting this unlawful plot, it crosses very significant redlines for the agency and its personnel."
"They like to bully and threaten. But when push comes to shove, they'll have to come back."
