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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Sep 11, 2025

This is what terrorists do. They rape, they murder, they kidnap.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2025

I’m pleased to announce that I will soon be awarding Charlie Kirk posthumously the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2025

This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2025

For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans, like Charlie, to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Sep 11, 2025

That’s what these folks try to do, they try to scare you into inaction.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 11, 2025

On this issue, we’re totally united. The Republicans have to come to meet with us in a true bipartisan negotiation to satisfy the American people’s needs on healthcare, or they won’t get our votes, plain and simple.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 11, 2025

If they aren't willing to do that, then we'll proceed with the other plan.

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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Sep 11, 2025

He had other plans. And now that Charlie is in heaven, I’ll ask him to talk to big man directly on behalf of his family, his friends, and the country he loved so dearly.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 11, 2025

This is a sad, regrettable day for the Senate.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 11, 2025

We've got a crisis, and it's time to take steps to restore Senate precedent and codify in Senate rules what once was understood to be standard practice, and that is the Senate acting expeditiously on presidential nominations to allow a…

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 11, 2025

This is a time that all Americans should come together and feel and mourn what happened. Violence, which affects so many different people, so many different political persuasions, is an affliction of America.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Sep 11, 2025

The violent abduction of these children is a crime against humanity. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Sep 11, 2025

I would just say this measure is no substitute for our sanctions bill, which is also bipartisan, 85 co-sponsors.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2025

From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year — which killed a husband and father — to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a health care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House…

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2025

For years, those on the radical Left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our…

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