“These ads are virtually indistinguishable from those made for Trump's 2024 campaign, and yet you, the taxpayer, is funding them. It's an absolute violation of what democracy is supposed to look like. [Schumer said only Trump would have] the audacity to force Americans not only to watch his propaganda, but to pay for it.
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Senator • New York
Senior United States Senator from New York
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“With this rescissions package, the Trump administration is illegally stripping nearly $1 billion in critical funding that supports kids, K-12 students, small businesses, and health and clean air research. … Trump is gleefully eviscerating programs and protections that help hardworking American families live a safe and healthy life, all while he continues to punish them with skyrocketing gas and grocery prices.
“We are taking strong, joint legal action to block Donald Trump's threats to deploy federal agents, including ICE and FBI agents, to polling places this November. Sending armed federal agents into American neighborhoods to intimidate voters is not only wrong – it's illegal and would mark a new and extremely dangerous escalation of this administration's disregard for the rule of law and repeated attempts to rig the midterms. … Federal law explicitly forbids voter intimidation and stationing armed federal agents at polling places. Our case is clear, and we're confident we'll defeat Trump in court yet again.
“[Joint statement of 21 Senate Democrats:] President Trump opted for pageantry over purpose—trading tough diplomacy for a ballroom tour and a lavish dinner with his billionaire friends.
“[Trump's] desperate, repressive media ban is flagrantly unconstitutional. … No president should be able to use censorship to escape accountability. … Is Trump so fragile, so thin-skinned, so desperate that he can't handle reporting that reflects the truth that he doesn't want to hear?
“Americans are getting crushed at the gas pumps, working families are getting cleaned out at grocery store counters, and family farms are going under because Trump took this country to war without authorization, without a plan, and without a second thought to the consequences. … Senate Republicans, if they knew what was good for them, would have joined us in pushing for an end to Trump's war seven months ago.
“Trump is the very first president who has negotiated away our export controls, our national security, to the Chinese. Put simply, Trump is handing China the technology it needs to win the AI race. … If [Thune] would put them on the floor today, we can pass them. Period.
“As health care costs skyrocket and millions of Americans go uninsured, what is JD Vance and Donald Trump's solution? Kick hundreds of thousands more people off their health insurance.
“The Chinese military continues its pressure campaign against our vital democratic partner Taiwan as President Trump has retreated from longstanding security commitments. … As Americans face rising prices for gas, food, housing, and more, President Trump is rolling out the red carpet for President Xi and hosting closed-door dinners so his billionaire friends can strike deals that threaten American jobs and national security. … He must stand with Taiwan and not let China veto American support for Taiwan's defense. … We can't let President Xi leave stronger than when he arrived. That is not diplomacy, it's weakness. [Joint statement by Sens. Coons, Schumer, Murray, Reed, Shaheen, Warner, Warren and Andy Kim.]
“Donald Trump just did what dictators throughout history have done. @realDonaldTrump - this is a democracy. You will not be able to manipulate the news or hide the truth.
“[Trump's economic record is to blame:] The Fed hiking rates was the inevitable result of his failures and will raise Americans' costs in countless ways.
“As you may have heard, there was a bipartisan deal on the table as recently as this afternoon.
“A Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars in wedding expenses for Donald Trump Jr. … [Trump Jr. says] "Sometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift." … Sometimes a wedding gift is a bribe from a foreign autocrat. … What he was really buying was not to have a good time at a wedding, but access to the Trump family.
“Warning bells are ringing louder than they ever have – and the Trump administration is looking the other way. Well, if they won't hold themselves accountable, we will. And if Trump does not act, Congress must.
“The Department of Homeland Security is sending hundreds of officers who should be focused on our security on a wild goose chase to prove Trump's long-debunked election conspiracy theories.
“This was one of the most important cases to protect voting rights before the Supreme Court. The President's attempt to screw around with vote by mail was obscene. Finally, his scheme is dead.
“Trump's presidency is so failed and broken, he is resorting to trying to bribe the American people for their votes.
“I think in the very first weeks no one knew whether the air was fine or not.
“$5.84 a gallon for diesel is a new all-time high. Donald Trump and JD Vance own this.
“"Small potatoes." That's how Donald Trump feels about the war he started in Iran. Tell that to the families of the 18 troops we've lost, the hundreds of wounded servicemembers, and the Americans suffering every single day from record high prices. There's nothing small about it.
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