I think the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, which are the two principal Departments for this purpose, are very well lashed up now.
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This is essential to the fight against violent crime and against gun violence.
Voting is a fundamental element of our democracy.
Every Republican controlled state in the country is now moving legislation. Some haven’t acted new laws already to rollback voting rights in ways that target voters of color.
The job of cleaning up a corrupted U.S. Justice Department is a terrible one and a really hard one. But it is a necessity for all the obvious reasons.
Very clear violations of the Justice Department policy and a really serious issue.
You can’t just let that slide if the Justice Department has been used for corrupt purposes to help the president’s friends.
How did Merrick Garland choose to deal with that misbehavior by the Trump Justice Department?
His name is on the budget. This is the President's budget.
If you don't collect the data and know what the problem is, you have no chance of fixing it.
You cut diplomacy, you may as well buy me more bullets.
If we want to deal with a very complex world, we believe it is appropriate, which we are doing, to look at defense in a broad view and make sure we have the necessary increases in foreign assistance and aid.
Some states have chosen, for whatever reason, not to expand Medicaid and it has left some of the, you know, the neediest of the poor without health insurance.
We expect a much larger growth pattern than we see even in this budget.
The President has put forth an executive order that calls on the government to look through all its lenses as we implement programs to make sure we don't leave any communities behind.
I remain committed to enhancing U.S. and European energy security and to ensuring Russia cannot use energy as a coercive tool.
I think we should have as much transparency as we possibly can with whatever information we find.
We strongly support the Abraham Accords. This is an important initiative and I think, as we see more countries working to normalize relations with Israel, that's a good thing.