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I just want to clarify because my colleague pounded on the desk, and that was hard for me to watch. I am not here because we haven't been trying to get a bipartisan consensus on this and calling and doing all the work. I have watched this…

Working class people receive Medicaid as they are working […] This is not just lazy people who are sitting around not doing their job.

Ignoring the guidelines and firing JAGs suggests the administration is attempting to build a military of loyalists focused less on our safety and more on loyalty to MAGA and Trump.

Trump and Hegseth are trying to gut the military’s leadership so they can use the armed forces to carry out their personal, political agenda.

In the United States Armed Forces, you swear an oath to the Constitution — not a person, not a political party.

Last night at the Pentagon, President Trump and Secretary Hegseth dismantled a core principle of American democracy: the apolitical military.

This is what a strong president does: They get elected, especially without a mandate, without the popular vote, you come in and say, ‘I want to work with Democrats.’

Donald Trump has thrown that out the window and is sending a dangerous message to the military.

They are already showing that they want to shut down the government. They're trying to shut down [the] Department of Education. They're trying to shut down USAID.

Our federal agricultural policy is designed in such a way that the factory farm model gets all the benefits and none of the blame.

The current program lines the MTA's pockets at the expense of New Jerseyans.

Today is a huge win for Jersey families, their wallets, and the environment.

an embarrassing episode for the Department of Justice [that] further undercuts the public confidence in our system of justice.

This is an embarrassing episode for the Department of Justice [that] further undercuts the public confidence in our system of justice.

USAID isn’t charity. It’s a foreign policy tool with bipartisan origins.

Clearly this is a man that is driving an agenda that’s breaking the law, violating civil service laws, violating common sense, violating fiscal prudence, benefiting corrupt practices.

I missed the following votes, but had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 40 and NAY on Roll Call No. 41. ____________________

They will drop out. You have priced them out of higher education.