On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Way Too Early,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said that Democrats “share the concern about TSA that’s not being paid.” But also, “Democrats have been very solid in the Senate on the need to have
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) argued that “in areas where our interests are questionable” like Iran, President Donald Trump is getting more invested but in areas like Ukraine where we can “push back
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” Border Czar Tom Homan responded to arguments that sanctuary city policies are needed so crime victims and witnesses can come forward by saying, “That is a bunch of
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Michael Eisenberg, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the Iranian people aren’t going to take to the streets while bombs are falling and “It takes months for the people to
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) responded to a question on whether he’ll vote in favor of a reconciliation bill to end the DHS shutdown by saying that he won’t be part
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that tragedies like the killing of Sheridan Gorman “are going to continue to happen.” And criticized Democrats for refusing to back the Laken Riley Act.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that Democrats are trying “to make the point that ICE is out of control” with the DHS shutdown. Host Kaitlan Collins asked, “Another thing that your colleagues that
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) defended Democrats rejecting an off-ramp on the DHS shutdown and said that Democrats think Republicans “understand that they’re getting blamed for those long lines, and they’re also getting
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that he will vote against the requested $200 billion supplemental even though “that money really won’t go to this conflict. It won’t be timely for this conflict to
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Democratic U.S. Senate nominee former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper stated that “because the Republican Congress refused to extend the federal subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, we’ve got almost 200,000
On Monday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Congressional Correspondent Lisa Desjardins said that the airport lines “are actually making it more difficult to reach a solution” to the DHS shutdown and stated that Democrats see polls showing more people blame Republicans for problems at airports than blame Democrats, even though, “Usually, the party that starts the shutdown, in this case, Democrats sparked it, gets the blame.” While President Donald Trump views sending ICE agents to airports as the answer.
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) blamed the DHS shutdown on Republicans and also said Democrats are “fighting and we’ll continue to fight the good fight until we get across that finish line
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) stated that President Donald Trump deserves some credit for the decrease in crime in Memphis because having more federal law enforcement there helped because the city has a shortage
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued that Operation Epic Fury has backfired because Iran’s new leader “actually now believes that they should have nuclear capability” because “Khamenei, the older one, had a fatwa
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said that he fears the DHS shutdown “is doing irreparable harm” to the TSA and “The object of the fight that Democrats are putting up resistance over, CBP
On Monday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) said that Democrats should look to cut a deal on DHS funding, and “It is politically difficult for us to support ICE, just given how reckless they’ve been over the
On Saturday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Velshi,” Michigan gubernatorial candidate Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) said that the SAVE America Act is an “attempt to, essentially, rig our elections, because, as the president said, he’s afraid of the voters.”
On Saturday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) argued that Republicans want to shut down DHS and “we don’t want to give a penny more to ICE. That’s our position, because ICE has become secret police”
On Friday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” host Ali Velshi argued that President Donald Trump doing things like “launching a super-expensive war of choice on Iran based on an unproven threat and without congressional approval,” doesn’t leave “a
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) discussed the DHS shutdown and said that “if we were able to open up the rest of the government and focus on the ICE issue, it may allow us, then,
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) responded to a question on if there’s a compromise on ICE short of everything Democrats are asking for by saying that “it’s very hard for us to come to some
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) said that Democrats rejected the White House offer on the DHS shutdown and that people will face “four-hour waits at TSA lines because of Donald Trump and the Republicans’
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that the situation around the DHS shutdown is getting more dangerous, “And we may have to accept the fact that the Republicans are refusing to do anything meaningful” on
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Julie Johnson (D-TX) discussed the DHS shutdown and blamed Republicans for TSA and other parts of DHS being shutdown and said she “would love to see the situation resolved, but we have
During a town hall on CNN on Friday, United States Ambassador to the U.N. Michael Waltz defended the Trump administration lifting sanctions on some Iranian oil by saying that “much of that oil and that illicit oil is already out
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that he can support funding everything in DHS but ICE, but what would happen next is Republicans will pass a bill through reconciliation to fund ICE without Democratic votes.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” CNN Contributor Paul Begala said that Republicans and Democrats have “a terrible rift over Israel and antisemitism,” “And I tell all my liberal friends, who had a bigger pride parade, Tel Aviv or
On Friday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said that Democrats are “going to hold firm” on the DHS shutdown “and Republicans will be held accountable.” Co-host Michael Steele asked, “[A]re you going to hold the
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) reacted to reports of a $1.5 trillion budget request for the Pentagon by saying that “we really need to press the Pentagon to become more
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) reacted to the Iran supplemental by saying that “I want to make sure I know the gameplan, because we want to know what the result
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) said that the $200 billion price tag for the Iran supplemental is “a little bit high” and there needs to be an explanation of how
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) responded to a question on the prospect of relief or a bailout for farmers by saying that “we’ve got to do everything we can to help our farmers and
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. Angus King (I-ME) discussed the impasse over DHS funding and said that the solution to the disagreement between Democrats and Republicans over whether agents should be able to wear masks is to
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-CA) said that in California, “my neighbors pay way too much already.” But a federal gas tax holiday wouldn’t help and “if the gas tax goes away, it means
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) discussed the DHS shutdown and said that funding the agency piecemeal and using it as leverage “is not a best practice. You can see that on display. It’s terrible.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) discussed a potential budget supplemental due to Iran and said that the money spent on Iran could have funded “a year extension of the ACA tax credits, right? Like,
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) stated that he would accept piecemeal DHS funding for things like TSA and FEMA if they attached legislation to ensure employees get paid during a
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) argued that the TSA should have been set up to be privately contracted so that there would not be disruptions like the current one that
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “11th Hour,” MS NOW host Ali Velshi argued that recently killed Iranian official Ali Larijani “was very sort of Western-facing and someone America could deal with. He became hardline after we pulled out of the
On Wednesday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press NOW,” U.S. Senate candidate Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton (D) advocated for abolishing ICE and said that “what does not work — and I don’t think anyone would say it does — is
