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“the beginning of the end of auto manufacturing in the United States.”— Elissa Slotkin · full quotes →

“President Trump enacted the largest ever investment in rural health care when he signed the landmark Working Families Tax Cuts Act into law.”— Allison Schuster · full quotes →

“if you're interested in how atrocities are covered up and forgotten, I wrote a book about the worst massacre in American history that you have never heard…”— kimatiwagner.bsky.social · full quotes →

“I'm not sure I'm done with running for office”— Andy Beshear, Kentucky Governor · full quotes →

“mobile detention centers”— NPR, News organization · NPR Up First newsletter · full quotes →

“responsibility to say what others are thinking”— Sen. John Curtis · full quotes →

“It’s a defense of many different types of values, including civil liberties and religious freedoms.”— Chris Dier, New Orleans history teacher · Mastodon · full quotes →

“All but the most obstinate Republicans are plainly unhappy about the situation.”— Nate Silver, Polling analyst · Silver Bulletin · full quotes →

“the U.S. Department of State would soon file a federal register notice proposing to share "information contained in the Passport Services Records system," with…”— Department of Justice · Press · full quotes →

“mobile detention facilities”— ICE procurement document, Government document cited by NPR · NPR · full quotes →

“Moscow is celebrating because it got what it wanted: a sense of impunity, the humiliation of the EU, and division among Europeans.”— Andriy Sybiha, Ukrainian Foreign Minister · Mastodon · full quotes →

“A voter who registered through DPS online services but does not appear on the rolls can cast a provisional ballot.”— Alicia Pierce · full quotes →

“This initiative is a tier one priority”— Justice Department official · full quotes →

“The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus. The pricing would be for substantially less than we are…”— Donald Trump, U.S. President · full quotes →

“described himself as a “peacemaker,” but at the same time spoke about annihilating the Islamic Republic”— Lindsey Granger · full quotes →

“'This is just the beginning'”— Prosecutor · full quotes →

“It's like the morning after the frat party, and they're going to wake up and understand that, gee, we are having all that fun and we might have overplayed our…”— Bill Graves · full quotes →

“Registered voters are less confident that USPS will deliver election mail on time compared with 2024, an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds, after USPS was part of…”— NPR · full quotes →

“There will be no facility like this anywhere in the world.”— Donald Trump, US President · Truth Social, via The Guardian · full quotes →

“Lord help us. It's terrifying when you think about this.”— Sen. Tommy Tuberville · full quotes →

“It's a perversion of the whole purpose of refugee assistance.”— Jeremy Konyndyk, President of Refugees International · full quotes →

“Michigan families can't afford to wait”— Mike Rogers, Republican Senate candidate · The Hill · full quotes →

“Quite frankly, had the White House asked me for advice, I would have suggested the president not invite Xi Jinping to Washington for such a lavish welcome here…”— Sen. Roger Wicker, Senate Armed Services Committee chair · full quotes →

“Look, we are a big tent party, and being a big tent party is a strength, not a weakness.”— Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer · full quotes →

“Bobby is among my closest friends in the world for many years, and I'm grateful to be able to host him anytime.”— Gavin de Becker · full quotes →

“California has created a shadow welfare system for illegal aliens. Free housing, cash, healthcare, food, phones, college tuition, even car insurance—costing…”— Christopher Rufo, Journalist/activist · x.com · full quotes →

“Fears are growing that President Trump may deploy the U.S. military to polling places in the upcoming elections, despite strict state and federal laws against…”— NPR · Mastodon · full quotes →

“It's about control. If you strip it back, and all the fluff and, you know, the verbiage, you can actually strip it back to one word, which is control.”— Andy Burnham · full quotes →

“So much of this language is almost indistinguishable from the way Albanese speaks - focusing on free market mechanisms, techno-solutionism, constantly about…”— ketanjoshi.co · full quotes →

“The president very much believes that over time the U.S. economy is going to grow, the U.S. will get stronger, the U.S. will keep making advances in AI and on…”— Edgard Kagan, Former senior State Department official for East Asia policy · full quotes →

“I think possibly it was fear… They had seen the way I had been treated at the hospital by senior staff members.”— Sandie Peggie · full quotes →

“Instead of lowering your energy bills or cutting your taxes, Burnham has announced a National Centre for Information Defence. This is a Labour Ministry of…”— Nigel Farage · full quotes →

“The tax cuts in President Trump's signature achievement were the Republicans' answer to voters' economic struggles, but its health care and food assistance…”— Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times reporter · Mastodon · full quotes →

“A war has sent up the price of diesel. These guys said, 'We don't know if we're going to keep the farm.'”— Adam Hamilton · full quotes →

“if you are in a +15 district you're within the margin for error, if you're in a +10 district you're underwater”— Iowa House Republican pollsters (via Steve Deace) · full quotes →