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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 16, 2025

A couple of you are sitting here, saying, 'Sir, would $25 million be appropriate?' I said, 'I'll take it.'

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 16, 2025

We need Tomahawks for the United States of America, too. We have a lot of them, but we need them. I mean, we — we can’t deplete for our country.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Oct 16, 2025

I think it’s a bill whose time has come.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 16, 2025

A meeting location is to be determined. President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this 'inglorious' War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2025

We’re not negotiating in public, plain and simple.

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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Oct 16, 2025

The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do. And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke—telling a very offensive, stupid…

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2025

we have always negotiated these appropriations agreements in a bipartisan way.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 16, 2025

Well, I don’t want to tell you exactly, but we are certainly looking at land now, because we've got the sea very well under control.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 16, 2025

We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want, and they’d be Democrat things.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 16, 2025

I did actually say, ‘Would you mind if I gave a couple of thousand Tomahawks to your opposition?’ I did say that to him. I said it just that way. He didn’t like the idea. He really didn’t like the idea.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Oct 16, 2025

At some point, Democrats have to take ‘yes’ for an answer.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Oct 16, 2025

President Putin thanked the First Lady, Melania, for her involvement with children. He was very appreciative, and said that this will continue.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Oct 16, 2025

We are all about getting health insurance down, making it more affordable to more people.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Oct 16, 2025

I hope it doesn’t last through Thanksgiving, because that’s going to be a lot of harm to the American people and obviously a lot of harm to federal workers.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Oct 16, 2025

I’m hoping to get it scheduled.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Oct 16, 2025

It’s good progress, but it’s not what we need in order to open things back up again.

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