“[Letter to Secretary Mullin, led with Peters, Durbin and Schumer and signed by 34 senators:] The 2026 midterm elections are already underway. Your unsubstantiated allegations of noncitizen voter fraud, public recitation of unreliable data, and unwarranted conditioning of continued grant funding for state election security measures on compliance with politically motivated requests for voter data appear to be calculated efforts to undermine confidence in our elections and risks wrongly disenfranchising voters.
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“[Padilla objected to Lee's unanimous-consent request, saying the bill] creates chaos in the middle of an election that's already underway.
“We're all committed to accountability in all its forms, and when we get the gavels back, we're going to move on that aggressively, starting with the investigations.
“Donald Trump and his Administration are obsessed with election conspiracy theories and operate under the wrong assumption that they are above the law – they are not. … The truth is, this has nothing to do with protecting the integrity of our elections. That's just a pretext. … If this effort is truly legal, then why does DHS leadership have to promise its officers that they're not going to be held liable?
“Tax dollars aren't a campaign slush fund and bribing Americans for their vote is illegal.
“In the face of Donald Trump's attacks on the Smithsonian, Secretary Bunch spoke truth to power and reasserted his commitment to defend and uphold American history and values. While I respect his decision to depart, the job now falls to the Board of Regents and Congress to ensure the success of his work will remain for generations to come.
“Yosemite is not for sale.
“Projects should be chosen on merit, not on an applicant’s connections to high-ranking Trump Administration officials.
“Trump is desperately trying to rig the rules for the 2026 election. He is rushing through an unconstitutional order to limit mail voting before the midterms and the Supreme Court isn't stopping him.
“I don't put anything past the Trump administration to try to further terrorize immigrants.
“Credible reports of food shortages, unsanitary conditions, and a lack of other essential supplies demonstrate a jarring vulnerability in the necessary sustainment system supporting the strike group.
“Here we are, after months and months of debating this bill. We should be debating how to bring costs down for working families across the country.
“Trump doesn't understand the Constitution—but the 14th Amendment's promise of birthright citizenship and equality speaks for itself.
“This is out in the open – Donald Trump is the most corrupt President in American history.
“These projects were poised not only to advance U.S. leadership in clean energy technology and generation capacity, but also to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state investment. Dismantling the burgeoning offshore wind industry now and creating broader uncertainty for investment in cheap, clean energy will have consequences for decades to come.
“The Constitution could not be clearer: if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen.
“While we continue to see unprecedented efforts to interfere with elections from the Trump Administration, it is a relief to see federal courts make clear that these attacks on mail and absentee voting are clearly illegal and unconstitutional.
“Pam Bondi's disastrous tenure as Attorney General has come to an end, but the consequences of her weaponization of the Justice Department will reverberate for years to come. Under Pam Bondi, the DOJ irresponsibly rubber stamped investigations into Donald Trump's perceived political enemies, tried to coerce states into surrendering their voter rolls, pushed out career prosecutors and civil servants, and dodged accountability and transparency over the Epstein files.