"I don't need Congress' permission."
"I think based on the information I have today, if all I had was the information on the day of the vote, I’d certainly vote for him again."
"More than 173 people are still missing, days after the floods struck the area."
"If Republicans cave to Donald Trump and gut these investments agreed to by both parties, that would be an affront — a huge affront — to the bipartisan appropriations process."
"The way Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro ... is an international disgrace."
"If you go into Ukraine, I'm going to bomb the s--- out of Moscow."
"FEMA is clunky and slow."
"We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level."
"The role of FEMA is critically important."
"The reports of FEMA’s incomplete 2025 hurricane season plan on the cusp of the start of hurricane season and DHS’ slowness in providing the plan to this Committee are equally unsettling."
"The fact you have girls asleep in their cabins when flood waters are rising, something went wrong there. We’ve got to fix that and have a better system of warnings to get kids out of harm’s way."
"That was an act of God; it’s not the administration’s fault the floods hit when it did."
"You had people there as fast as anybody’s ever seen."
"There’s no doubt afterwards we are going to have a serious retrospective as you do after any disaster and say, ‘Okay, what could be done differently to prevent this disaster?’"
"People were sleeping in the middle of the night when the flood came."
"They need to leave and they need to leave right now."
"This is a vital check on executive power that is long overdue."
"But I’m hopeful that that is not the position of the Democrat Party, the Democrat conference here in the Senate, and that we can work together in the coming weeks to pass bipartisan appropriations bil..."
