This situation was preventable, and the conditions aboard the Lincoln are nearly identical to the issues faced by the USS Ford when it conducted an extended deployment that ended earlier this year.
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Our sailors and Marines signed up to serve and to be treated with respect. They did not sign up to be kept at sea indefinitely with no announced return date and, by multiple accounts, without reliable food, hot water, or working plumbing.
While I respect Dr. Overton’s experience as a physician, I have strong concerns about her nomination to be FDA commissioner.
The American people deserve someone who will put science and facts FIRST, not another Trump sycophant who will make it their mission to attack medication abortion.
We see a new grift every day. But the scheme is always the same. Trump profits, Americans pay.
This is something that can mobilize voters at the primary level and especially at the general election level, when you’re bringing in those swing voters.
The President said he’d pay off the debt in his first term. Well we all knew that was a lie. Instead he ran it up to $40 trillion while he and his family made billions.
The primary is in the past and the nominee has my support.
So, I'd turn my fire on the Democrats, attack them for being against something that is fundamentally straightforward, simple to understand for the American people, and realize that the best way to get the SAVE Act across the finish line is…
If you look at Maine, in North Carolina, in Ohio, in Iowa, in Alaska, you know, it's the Indy voters, it is the middle of the electorate, and we are not talking to them when we are arguing with each other over whether or not to eliminate…
I think he's a very important voice here, because in midterm elections, it's about turning out your base.
We're seeing the Democrats are just running so far to the left that it's frightening where the center of gravity is now a Democrat Party.
There's no doubt that the road to socialism runs right through a divided Republican Party.
His extensive experience, professionalism, and judicial temperament make him exceptionally well-qualified for this role.
Kyle brings extensive knowledge of both our state and our court system to the federal bench, having served the District of Alaska as a federal prosecutor and U.S. Magistrate Judge, a position he has held in Alaska for the past five years.
I said that right after it occurred. I think that’s all been checked off.
I think there are too many other issues that I’ve talked about that state government needs to keep moving in the right direction.
He sounds to me like he’ll be an entrepreneurial senator.
Speculation about my whereabouts has been 'a lot of bologna from big government woke Democrats.'
Over the last six years, I’ve averaged 185 days per year in DC doing the work you sent me to do.
Instead of writing press releases, we’ve been actively working with several news outlets to host and moderate a new debate at the fair.
Nuclear is, you know, it’s kind of back in vogue, especially the smaller modular reactors.
I’m a realist. But I feel good about where things stand.





