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  1. 3 hours ago

    Now he’s firing Mattis—a man who has spent a lifetime in public service—by January 1? What did Mattis say no to this time?

    I am pleased to announce that our very talented Deputy Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, will assume the title of Acting Secretary of Defense starting January 1, 2019. Patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as Deputy, & previously Boeing. He will be great!
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  2. 6 hours ago

    President is calling respected diplomat Brett McGurk a grandstander? Oh, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦.

    Brett McGurk, who I do not know, was appointed by President Obama in 2015. Was supposed to leave in February but he just resigned prior to leaving. Grandstander? The Fake News is making such a big deal about this nothing event!
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  3. Dec 22

    At midnight last night, roughly twenty five percent of the government shut down because of one person and one person alone: President . We arrived at this moment because President Trump has been on a remarkable two-week temper tantrum.

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  4. Dec 21

    Regrettably, America has now entered a . My statement with :

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    Dec 21

    On the Senate floor with to ask McConnell to bring our bill to guarantee back pay for furloughed federal workers to a vote. Federal workers deserve to know that if the Trump Shutdown happens they won’t be punished.

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  6. Dec 21

    President Trump has thrown a temper tantrum and has us careening towards a Christmas . He called for a shutdown no less than 25 times. It doesn’t have to be this way. We've offered 2 alternatives. should consider them today.

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  7. Dec 21

    You own the shutdown—your own words, . The Senate UNANIMOUSLY passed a bipartisan solution to avoid a shutdown. Then you threw another temper tantrum and convinced the House to ignore that compromise.

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  8. Dec 20

    President Trump is plunging us into chaos. The stock market is down 500 points. Secretary Mattis is leaving. We know he had serious disagreements with President Trump over Syria and the wall. And now, another temper tantrum and a Trump shutdown over Christmas is nearly upon us.

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  9. Dec 20

    The Senate agreed to pass a short-term continuing resolution to keep the government open. With 36 hours left to avoid a shutdown, the House must pass this continuing resolution and President Trump must sign it.

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  10. Dec 20

    Hey , we were promised that Mexico would pay for the wall. 100%.

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  11. Dec 20

    Since Mr. Barr hasn’t been formally nominated yet, the president must immediately reconsider and find another nominee who is free of conflicts and will carry out the duties of the office impartially.

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  12. Dec 20

    The fact that he holds these deeply misguided views and chose to launch them in an unprovoked written attack on the Special Counsel unquestionably disqualifies Mr. Barr from serving as Attorney General again.

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  13. Dec 20

    Mr. Barr believes presidents in general—and more frighteningly, President Trump, who has shown less respect for rule of law than any president—are above the law.

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  14. Dec 20

    William Barr’s memo to the Department of Justice criticizing the Special Counsel investigation reveals that he is fatally conflicted from being able to oversee the Special Counsel’s investigation and he should not be nominated to be Attorney General.

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  15. Dec 19

    The American people know the president’s wall is ineffective, expensive, and only serves as a political bone to his most conservative supporters—certainly not worth a government shutdown.

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  16. Dec 19

    It’s good that our Republican colleagues in the Senate finally realized that they should not shut down the government over a wall that does not have enough support to pass the House or Senate and is not supported by a majority of the country.

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    Dec 18

    “The presence of hate has become taken for granted,” says Steven Spielberg. “We are not doing enough to counter it.”

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  18. Dec 19

    BREAKING: Every member of the just told to uphold the rule of law and defend health care protections for millions of Americans.

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  19. Dec 19

    You're going to want to make sure your friends see this: Senators Booker, Coons, and Flake just asked for the Senate's unanimous consent to pass a bill protecting the Mueller investigation from President Trump. But they didn’t get it. Because McConnell objected.

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  20. Dec 19

    This morning, also tweeted that Mexico could somehow pay for the wall through a new trade deal. Of course, there have been multiple fact checks that show a new NAFTA could not possibly fund a wall, directly or indirectly.

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