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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Aug 29, 2025

The question is: Do we want a person who makes a mistake like that to be a person who sits on the Federal Reserve Board, which makes important monetary policy for the entire country?

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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Aug 29, 2025

Whether it's criminal, whether it's intentional or not, we know that this is a person, I think, who doesn't meet the standard that we should expect for the Federal Reserve, which is why the president fired her and he does have the legal…

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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Aug 29, 2025

I don't think we allow bureaucrats to make decisions about monetary policy and interest rates without any input from the people that were elected to serve the American people.

reason.com
Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Aug 29, 2025

This new Republican policy to detain firefighters on the job is as immoral as it is dangerous.

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Aug 29, 2025

I am demanding immediate answers from this administration about the circumstances of this incident.

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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Aug 29, 2025

To set the record straight: Steve Witkoff is an invaluable member of our team.

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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Aug 29, 2025

They have an agenda to blow up the president's efforts to make peace, and they saw her as a useful vessel to launder garbage into the conversation, truth be damned.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Aug 29, 2025

Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Aug 29, 2025

Certainly, I would not take responsibility.

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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Aug 29, 2025

This story from Politico is journalistic malpractice. But it's more than that: it's a foreign influence operation meant to hurt the administration and one of our most effective members.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Aug 29, 2025

The autism is such a tremendous horror show. When you see the kind of numbers that you have today versus 20 years ago…there has to be something artificially causing this, meaning a drug or something.

reason.com
Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Aug 28, 2025

At the same time, the United States remains available for direct engagement with Iran — in furtherance of a peaceful, enduring resolution to the Iran nuclear issue.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Aug 28, 2025

Snapback does not contradict our earnest readiness for diplomacy, it only enhances it.

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Tina Smith
@tinasmith· Democratic · MN· Aug 28, 2025

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Aug 28, 2025

she seems to have had an infraction, and she can’t have an infraction, especially that infraction, because she’s in charge of, if you think about it, mortgages.

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