Jamie Raskin
U.S. Representative from Maryland.
Notable Quotes
"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."View Story →
"A big, beautiful jet paid for by the Big Beautiful Bill."View Story →
"But wouldn’t it be cheaper just to buy a deportation plane in the first place?"View Story →
"an airborne episode of entitlement, arrogance, and contempt that I could hardly believe."View Story →
"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."View Story →
"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."View Story →
"include damning evidence about your boss’s conduct"View Story →
"Raskin said the disclosure was part of a tranche of 'cherry-picked' documents handed over to the Judiciary Committee."View Story →
"according to Raskin’s letter."View Story →
"the same records 'include damning evidence about your boss’s conduct.'"View Story →
"an aggravated potential harm to national security."View Story →
"It’s also amazing Rep. Raskin never focuses on the work of the DOJ."View Story →
"I will introduce legislation creating a commission to facilitate the removal of any president deemed unable to carry out their duties."View Story →
"People were screaming and yelling. People were terrified. People seem to be relieved now but it definitely looks like the evening is over."View Story →
"We have not dealt with the problem and we’re losing thousands of people a year to gun violence."View Story →
"We’re willing to give you 45 more days for us to negotiate this thing if the speaker will actually sit down with us."View Story →
"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."View Story →
"It was a slush fund for Trump's private militia of insurrectionists, rioters, and white supremacists."View Story →
"This is pure fraud and highway robbery."View Story →
"This is pure fraud and highway robbery. No one can be both plaintiff and defendant in the same case."View Story →
"This, of course, is a political grievance fund that Donald Trump can use to pay off his friends."View Story →
"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."View Story →
"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."View Story →
"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."View Story →
"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."View Story →
"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."View Story →
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