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Jamie Raskin

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U.S. Representative from Maryland.

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"You budgeted an astonishing $220 million for media consultant contracts so you can star in self-promoting photo shoots and lavish ad campaigns featuring the Lifestyles of Rich and Famous Cabinet Secretaries."
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"A big, beautiful jet paid for by the Big Beautiful Bill."
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"But wouldn’t it be cheaper just to buy a deportation plane in the first place?"
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"an airborne episode of entitlement, arrogance, and contempt that I could hardly believe."
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"Secretary Noem, you’re flying high now, maybe even a little too close to the sun, but with all these free planes and houses and pilots, you’ve travelled a long distance from your actual job and the things you should be doing as Head of Homeland Security."
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"These new disclosures suggest that Donald Trump stole documents so sensitive that only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them."
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"include damning evidence about your boss’s conduct"
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"Raskin said the disclosure was part of a tranche of 'cherry-picked' documents handed over to the Judiciary Committee."
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"according to Raskin’s letter."
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"the same records 'include damning evidence about your boss’s conduct.'"
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"an aggravated potential harm to national security."
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"It’s also amazing Rep. Raskin never focuses on the work of the DOJ."
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"I will introduce legislation creating a commission to facilitate the removal of any president deemed unable to carry out their duties."
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"People were screaming and yelling. People were terrified. People seem to be relieved now but it definitely looks like the evening is over."
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"We have not dealt with the problem and we’re losing thousands of people a year to gun violence."
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"We’re willing to give you 45 more days for us to negotiate this thing if the speaker will actually sit down with us."
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"Only Congress has the power to appropriate money, and Congress never voted on creating this $1.7 billion political slush fund at the Department of Justice, and Congress would never pass that."
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"It was a slush fund for Trump's private militia of insurrectionists, rioters, and white supremacists."
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"This is pure fraud and highway robbery."
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"This is pure fraud and highway robbery. No one can be both plaintiff and defendant in the same case."
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"This, of course, is a political grievance fund that Donald Trump can use to pay off his friends."
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"This case is nothing but a racket designed to take $1.7 billion of taxpayer dollars out of the Treasury and pour it into a huge slush fund for Trump at DOJ to hand out to his private militia of insurrectionists, rioters, and white supremacists."
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"Only Congress has the power to appropriate money, and Congress never voted on creating this $1.7 billion political slush fund at the Department of Justice, and Congress would never pass that."
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"This case is nothing but a racket designed to take $1.7 billion of taxpayer dollars out of the Treasury and pour it into a huge slush fund for Trump at DOJ to hand out to his private militia of insurrectionists, rioters, and white supremacists."
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"Only Congress has the power to appropriate money, and Congress never voted on creating this $1.7 billion political slush fund at the Department of Justice, and Congress would never pass that."
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"This case is nothing but a racket designed to take $1.7 billion of taxpayer dollars out of the Treasury and pour it into a huge slush fund for Trump."
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