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Maxwell Frost
@maxwellfrost· Democratic · FL· Jan 2, 2026

I see myself as a small part of a bigger movement. It’s the reason I got into politics.

theguardian.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jan 2, 2026

I’m glad President Trump has finally admitted defeat: we’ve said all along the federalization of the National Guard in California is illegal.

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

If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go.

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
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
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
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Jan 2, 2026

Zohran Mamdani will be the first Muslim mayor of our great city. He will be our first immigrant mayor in over a century, and he will be the youngest mayor of New York City in generations. But most importantly, Zohran will be a mayor for…

abcnews.go.com
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
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…

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

the U.S. is engaged in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels.

npr.org
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
Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jan 2, 2026

A farmer in Vermont, their premium is going to go from $900 a month to $3,200, a month.

npr.org
Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jan 2, 2026

There's a number of Republican and Democratic senators who are seeing what a disaster this will be for families that they represent.

npr.org
Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jan 2, 2026

It would require that President Trump play a major role in this, because he has such influence over the Republican majority in the House and even in the Senate.

npr.org