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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jun 30, 2025

I have known @ZohranKMamdani since we worked together to provide debt relief for thousands of beleaguered taxi drivers & fought to stop a fracked gas plant in Astoria. He ran an impressive campaign that connected with New Yorkers about…

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Jerry Nadler
@jerrynadler· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

This bill will put an end to those intimidation tactics, restore transparency, and ensure the public knows exactly who is wielding federal power in our communities.

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Jerry Nadler
@jerrynadler· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

If their operations are legitimate and above-board, why is there a need for anonymity, and why don't they need warrants to come onto private property?

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Nydia Velázquez
@nydiavelzquez· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

If their operations are legitimate and above-board, why is there a need for anonymity, and why don't they need warrants to come onto private property?

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Nydia Velázquez
@nydiavelzquez· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in masks without names or badges—and we shouldn't accept it from ICE either.

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Nydia Velázquez
@nydiavelzquez· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

When agents hide their faces and identities they create chaos, fear, and open the door to abuse.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

Republicans won’t tell America what’s in the bill so Democrats are forcing it to be read start to finish on the floor.

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Adriano Espaillat
@adrianoespaillat· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

if you uphold the peace of a democratic society, you should not be anonymous. DHS and ICE agents wearing masks and hiding identification echoes the tactics of secret police authoritarian regimes.

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Kirsten Gillibrand
@kirstengillibrand· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

This is a very serious issue, because people that glorify the slaughter of Jews create fear in our communities.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

Rather than be honest with the American people about the true costs of their billionaire giveaways, Republicans are doing something the Senate has never, never done before, deploying fake math and accounting gimmicks to hide the true cost…

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Kirsten Gillibrand
@kirstengillibrand· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

The caller is exactly the New York constituents that I’ve spoken to that are alarmed. They are alarmed by past public statements.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

We have to stand up and fight back, and we haven’t seen that from our current mayor.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

Absolutely. Because ultimately, we’ve seen that this is a policy that has kept New Yorkers safe for decades.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

Those days are going to come to an end when I’m the mayor.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

I don’t think we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

Ultimately, because he wants to distract from what I’m fighting for, and I’m fighting for the very working people that he ran a campaign to empower, that he has since then betrayed.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

I have already had to start to get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I’m from, who I am.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality.

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