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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 4, 2026

This isn’t a country that’s on the other side of the world. It’s in our area. The Donroe Doctrine.

usatoday.com
Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 4, 2026

This is a big fricking day. And everybody in the world is thinking differently than they were just a few days ago, because of what you did.

usatoday.com
Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 2, 2026

But it ought to be pretty plain to people that when a new administration comes to Washington, it is not the ordinary and appropriate thing to start filling your own pockets, your friends’ pockets, your political allies’ pockets with public…

theguardian.com
Brian Fitzpatrick
@brianfitzpatrick· Republican · PA· Jan 2, 2026

But given the choice between a clean three-year extension and letting them expire, that's not a hard choice for me.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 2, 2026

It’s the second term strategy of let Trump be Trump without guardrails and that takes him into innumerable places where presidents heretofore did not go.

theguardian.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jan 2, 2026

That America, our great country, must belong to all of us, not just a few. And that lesson begins today in New York City.

usatoday.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jan 2, 2026

New York, thank you for inspiring our nation. Thank you for giving us from coast to coast, the hope and the vision that we can create government that works for all, not just the wealthy and the few.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 2, 2026

If they weren’t paying the proper ordinary Kennedy Center rates, they’re being given a benefit and those benefits seem only to be going towards groups that are affiliated with Trump and Maga.

theguardian.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jan 2, 2026

The billionaire class in this city and country have to got to understand that in America they cannot have it all.

usatoday.com
Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 2, 2026

You float stuff and you float stuff and you float stuff until people get inured to what a stupid or outrageous thing it is that has been floated and then you pull the trigger.

theguardian.com
Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jan 2, 2026

ongoing threats to free and fair elections posed by an out-of-control Trump administration, expose the election deniers who hold high-level positions of significance in the executive branch and detail the threats to public safety posed by…

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jan 2, 2026

In the years since that disgraceful day, far-right Republicans in Congress have repeatedly attempted to rewrite history and whitewash the events of January 6th. Our country has been indelibly scarred.

cbsnews.com
Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Jan 2, 2026

If Iran [shoots] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue.

cbsnews.com
Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 2, 2026

We began to get information about mischief taking place at the Kennedy Center and we got strong enough signals that we mounted an effort to dig into it and see what seemed actually to be going on.

theguardian.com
Tommy Tuberville
@tommytuberville· Republican · AL· Jan 2, 2026

Islam is not a religion. It's a cult. Islamists aren't here to assimilate. They're here to conquer.

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