"Declaring racism as a public health crisis is an initial step to bring more attention to these deep-rooted inequities, but we have much more work to do to address these disparities and deliver justice..."
"All Americans will feel the impacts of Trump's anti-immigrant agenda, creating chaos and fear in communities across our country, while also driving up costs for businesses and consumers."
"I mean, its offensive. It's insulting. It's never been done before in the history of our country, as I think prior speakers have said."
"Can you imagine if President Biden told the people of Florida, I'm not going to give you disaster relief unless you change your gun laws or Louisiana with your abortion laws. It's unconscionable."
"And we expect the federal government in our country to be there for us without conditions, without strings attached. So, to suggest that is unconscionable."
"The level of water flowing to Southern California from the north today is the exact same as it was during the first Trump administration."
"I'm hopeful that despite the president's political rhetoric and attacks, that people like Senator Rick Scott, former governor of Florida, who knows what it is to deal with the disaster. Senator Thom T..."
"Look, it's a power grab by the by the new President Trump and his administration. They're going to try to bend the agencies and the Department of Justice, for that matter, to their will."
"He comes in with an aggressive agenda. He hasn't signed the executive orders that we're expecting, but from what we've heard -- some that are legally dubious, some that are outright unconstitutional."
"He cannot unilaterally change that. But that's the conversation and the chaos. He wants to create."
"The largest deportation operation in our country's history is going to carry a lot of innocent people and a lot of people who are critical to the economy, to our communities, and to our national secur..."
"But the people who have been here for years, if not decades, like Dreamers, like farmers, like other essential workers that make our country tick, that's a whole different population."