There is no pain that is worth it. Our people are hurting, and they're hurting because of these games that we continue to see from Washington, DC.

I want the government reopened now.

I would tell them that we need to ensure that reopening the government does not mean kicking my people off of health care.

Fighting for democracy is never risky.

There is a chaos and it is an intentional chaos that we are seeing from this administration and where they have money for everything.

We are watching the president who is literally breaking the law so people can starve, but we're not going to sit there and tolerate in our state.

I'm not going to allow Donald Trump to determine whether or not Maryland follows this idea of saying, are we going to do everything we can to make sure we're preserving our democracy.

I'm not sure why we should be playing by a different set of rules than Texas, or than Florida, or than Ohio or all these other places.

There is a chaos, and it is an intentional chaos, that we are seeing from this administration.

Where we differ is the urgency that this moment requires, the fight that this moment requires.

Once we decided to step up and say we are going to make sure that our people are going to be OK … we’ve now received guidance saying the states are going to be punished for fronting the money.