What Trump is doing is giving us the opportunity and the necessity to show the contrast between us and the Republicans.

cut taxes for billionaires while slashing Medicaid into oblivion.

As we prepare to come back into session tomorrow, this is a time to choose. And we're either going to choose the side of the American people, or we're going to choose this cruel budget that Republicans are trying to jam down the throats of…

We're either going to choose the side of the American people, or we're going to choose this cruel budget that Republicans are trying to jam down the throats of the American people.

an existential struggle to defeat Republican efforts to try to jam a very reckless budget down the throats of the American people.

As we prepare to come back into session tomorrow, this is a time to choose.

Enough. This is not America. We will continue to show up, speak up and stand up until we end this national nightmare.

we are witnessing an oligarchy in America.

When those with the most economic, political and technological power destroy the public good in order to enrich themselves at the price of millions of Americans.

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

We have long known that no such link exists.

This flagrant attempt to erase Black history is unacceptable and must be stopped.

a shutdown would have been worse than the funding measure for the nation

The result will be chaos for this nation's public schools. Requiring schools to provide advance notice and the chance to opt out of every lesson plan or story time that might implicate a parent's religious beliefs will impose impossible…

Simply being exposed to beliefs contrary to your own does not amount to prohibiting the free exercise of religion

New York City needs a mayor that is willing to fight [and] stand up, because doing so means we can win.

Our schools sit at the nexus of so many different parts of our city and so many of the different struggles that we face as a city.

Climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns. They are, in fact, one and the same.