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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) stood by his past criticisms of President Trump, even as he praised the president for their "productive" White House meeting focused on affordability.
In an interview on NBC News's "Meet the Press," moderator Kristen Welker noted that, during his press conference with Trump on Friday, a reporter asked Mamdani whether he still believes the president is a "fascist," a label the mayor-elect has used to describe Trump in the past. |
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) called on Republicans in Congress to denounce President Trump's threats against he and five other Democratic lawmakers who said that service members can disobey illegal orders.
"We've heard very little, basically crickets, from Republicans in the United States Congress about what the president has said about hanging members of Congress," Kelly told host Margaret Brennan on Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation." |
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Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the chairman emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Ukraine should not sign President Trump's 28-point peace plan without ensuring an "ironclad" security agreement.
McCaul said on ABC's "This Week" that he's not sure either side will agree to Trump's proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, but the foreign policy hawk said he told the White House to make sure to avoid a repeat of the 1994 meeting in Budapest, where Ukraine agreed to significant concessions without getting any security guarantees in writing. |
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Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.) said that the science on vaccine efficacy should not be undermined, days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) contradicted its longstanding position that vaccines do not cause autism.
"Anything that undermines the understanding, the correct understanding, the absolute scientifically-based understanding that vaccines are safe and that, if you don't take them, you're putting your child or yourself in greater danger, anything that undermines that message is a problem," Cassidy, a physician, told host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union." |
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said Sunday she was surprised by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announcing her resignation over the weekend.
"Honestly, I was like, 'You've got to be kidding me,'" Crockett told host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union." "You're on the other side of the president for one week, and you can't take the heat."
Greene said Friday she will leave Congress in January, citing her falling out with President Trump. Earlier this month, the president withdrew his endorsement of Greene amid a fissure over the Jeffrey Epstein files. |
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said on Sunday that her security has ramped up since President Trump accused her and fellow Democratic lawmakers of committing "sedition" for encouraging servicemembers to defy unlawful orders.
In an interview on ABC's "This Week," Slotkin was asked to respond to Trump's latest social media posts doubling down on his attacks on the group of Democrats — all of whom have backgrounds in military or intelligence service — even after the White House walked back his earlier suggestion that they were guilty of "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!"
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has joined President Trump in a push to end the Senate's filibuster rule.
"The American people are just now emerging from the longest and most devastating government shutdown in U.S. history. And while the blame lies squarely with Senate Democrats, we cannot ignore the weapon they used to hold the country hostage: the legislative filibuster," Bessent said in a Washington Post opinion piece published Sunday.
"In January, when spending considerations again come due, if Democrats once again choose to shut down the government, then Republicans should immediately end the filibuster," he added. |
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called President Trump's 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine "awful" and a "complete capitulation" to Russian demands.
Warner, in an interview on ABC News's "This Week," compared the U.S. proposal to the appeasement approach of World War II-era British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who agreed in 1938 to let Germany annex the Sudetenland in the hope of staving off a larger war. |
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National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that the White House backs New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani keeping Jessica Tisch as the city's police commissioner.
"We are really reassured that [Mamdani has] kept the police commissioner. In previous administrations in New York, we have seen law and order really go south," Hassett told host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union."
Tisch confirmed Wednesday that she is accepting Mamdani's offer to continue leading the New York City Police Department (NYPD). She was appointed to the post by Mayor Eric Adams in November 2024. |
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Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) said he has received "very disturbing" threats in the wake of President Trump saying he and other Democratic lawmakers committed sedition after calling on service members to disobey illegal orders.
"We're going to take these seriously, but it's very disturbing stuff," Crow told host Margaret Brennan on CBS's "Face the Nation." "When you have the president threatening to execute and to hang and to arrest using this rhetoric, people listen to it." |
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