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Chris Van Hollen

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Chris Van Hollen is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Maryland since January 3, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Maryland's 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2017. Throughout his career, Van Hollen has focused on issues such as economic policy, healthcare, and education reform.

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Feb 22, 2025

We just talked about the great betrayal of the Ukrainian people.

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Feb 22, 2025

What we are witnessing are illegal actions by Elon Musk.

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Feb 22, 2025

The great betrayal of the American people.

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Feb 22, 2025

It is ethnic cleansing by another name.

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Feb 22, 2025

The actions he's taking are illegal, and we need to shut down this illegal operation.

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Feb 22, 2025

Elon Musk doesn't have the authority to require State Department employees to answer these questions.

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Feb 22, 2025

What we're witnessing now is the great betrayal of the American people.

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Feb 22, 2025

I think Trump is much closer ideologically to Putin and other autocrats around the world than he is to democratic countries.

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Feb 22, 2025

This is not 'America First'. This is America in retreat.

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Feb 22, 2025

This is a big problem, because when Trump made those statements, what he did was fueled even more the far, far right in Israel.

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Feb 22, 2025

This is not America first. This is America in retreat.

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Feb 22, 2025

That is ethnic cleansing by another name.

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Feb 17, 2025

The organizing idea behind what they’re doing is that Trump wants to be king.

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Feb 17, 2025

Conducting illegal raids on federal agencies.

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Feb 16, 2025

The effort to shut down USAID is an absolute gift to our adversaries, to Russia, to China, to Iran and others.

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Feb 16, 2025

It’s an absolute gift to our adversaries, to Russia, to China, to Iran and others.

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Feb 16, 2025

An absolute gift to our adversaries, to Russia, to China, to Iran and others.

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Feb 12, 2025

The judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, just like Congress and the presidency.

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Feb 12, 2025

Musk may get to be a dictator at Tesla, but he doesn't get to be one in Washington.

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Feb 12, 2025

What we're really facing here is an administration that campaigned on bringing down prices and is not doing that.

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Feb 10, 2025

We have one simple message, which is: Elon Musk, keep your hands off of our Social Security!

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Feb 5, 2025

Hearing reports that Musk's cronies are targeting NOAA — infiltrating key systems & locking out career employees.

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Feb 5, 2025

This is not America First — this is America in retreat.

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Feb 4, 2025

Trump’s proposal to push 2 million Palestinians out of Gaza and take ‘ownership’ by force if necessary is simply ethnic cleansing by another name.

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Jan 29, 2025

I was absolutely appalled when those words came out of President Trump's mouth, because we are in the middle of a national tragedy and a real tragedy for our region. And yet he decided to politicize it, throwing out these theories with no…

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