"We’ve been very clear that the headache with the federal bureaucracy largely resides within the national capital region."
"Today's decision will help our people heal much sooner, as we continue to rebuild and recover."
"he wants to be the king’s hand."
"I'm not going to let some pundit dictate whether or not I exercise my obligations as a member of the Article One branch."
"There's an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. There's an outbreak of Marburg's disease in Tanzania."
"I will now put a blanket hold on all of Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is restored."
"Serious concerns about his ability to do the job in an objective and fair way."
"The Trump administration’s climate and energy policies are not a mystery; it is to exacerbate the climate crisis."
"He's a liar, and it's bullshit because he went there and he met with the anti-vax leader, supported that person who was spreading all of this misinformation."
"the threat of a pardon will bring the Southern District to the table on this."
"If this thing went anonymously as a vote, it would be 70 votes against."
"He totally flopped in his hearing today. Didn't know the difference, as you reported, between Medicare and Medicaid, which is totally fundamental to Health and Human Services."
"He torpedoes it and makes it even worse. And it takes years to recover."
"This decision, putting RFK in control of our health system is a very dangerous one."
"I would ask the Republicans in the Senate, the Democrats in the Senate to not confirm him if that happens and he spreads doubt about vaccinations, communities all across the country will see their vac..."
"If he becomes health and human services secretary, people could die."
"If you put directors in, the secretary of health and human services is a critical position, and it results in our people getting harmed, then you haven't done the right thing by the people."
"Imagine if he defunded the NIH, the National Institute of Health, like he's talking about for up to eight years, so that we don't have any health research."