“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordJune 5, 2026
Nothing in this legislation will help struggling American families with the cost of gas, groceries, housing, or health care. But Republicans are adamant about funding one of President Trump’s most unpopular issues: mass deportation. Americans are outraged at his overreaching anti-immigrant campaign that doesn’t target the ‘worst of the worst,’ and I urge Republicans to at least support these commonsense amendments to establish basic guardrails on an unruly President.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Response to Senate Republicans' reconciliation bill

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