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"The Radical wing of the Democrat Party demanded that Chuck Schumer shut down the government — and he did that today... He had a war room going for the last eight weeks to orchestrate the shutdown," says Sen. John Barrasso.

"But the cracks in the Democrats are already showing."

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"I've had a brain tumor since I was 4 months and I'm doing great. I'm 15 now and I'm going to 10th grade."

POTUS: "And you're going to be a football player — offensive lineman!" ❤️

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"The dam may be breaking," says @LauraIngraham on 3 Senate Democrats voting for the GOP Continuing Resolution.

Speaker Mike Johnson: Chuck Schumer "is afraid of AOC. He thinks he's going to get challenged in the next election, so he has to 'fight Trump,' even if it means throwing the American people under the bus... Senate Democrats understand that. They don't want to be along for the ride."

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@RobertFKennedyJr: *Sneezes in the Oval Office*

POTUS: "God bless you Bobby. I hope I didn't catch COVID just there."

"Give me a Paxlovid immediately," he says to the CEO of Pfizer. 🤣

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16-year-old Carolyn Hendrix, a pediatric bone cancer survivor, on the Executive Order unlocking cures for pediatric cancer:

"What you're doing today, Mr. President, means that kids like me will get better options and so much more hope for the future." ❤️

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Stephanie McMahon: "If your child was diagnosed with cancer, you wouldn't care what party their doctor belonged to, you would just want the best—and President Trump is doing just that, enabling that every child with cancer gets the best care possible. We couldn't be more grateful."

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POTUS: "I'm thrilled to sign a very historic Executive Order to massively accelerate pediatric cancer research and harness the extraordinary potential of Artificial Intelligence to fight this terrible disease."

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Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on President Trump's plan to end the conflict in Gaza: We have widespread support from Gulf countries. We have widespread support from the Europeans. Do we have details to still work out? Yes, but I think we're going to get to the finish line.

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Fox News' Trey Yingst on POTUS' plan for peace in Gaza: "Everyone wins here."

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JD Vance: Democrats are willing to shut down the federal government because we won't give them $1.5 trillion (including taxpayer-funded free health care for illegals). We're simply not going to do that.

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NEC Director Kevin Hassett on POTUS' meeting with Democrats: For previous Democrat administrations, Presidents always said, "give us a clean Continuing Resolution... keep the government open" ... We can hope for the best that the Democrats don't shoot themselves in the foot.

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Speaker Mike Johnson: "During the Biden Administration, there were 13 threatened shutdowns. The Republicans, in the minority, did the right thing — we kept the government open. We're simply asking for the Democrats to do the same."

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POTUS: "I'm meeting with, as you know, a couple of Democrats in a little while about... keeping our country open. They're going to have to do some things because their ideas are not very good ones, they're very bad for our country, so we'll see how that works out."

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POTUS: "To ensure the success of this effort, my plan calls for a new international oversight body — the Board of Peace... which will be headed, not at my request... by a gentleman known as President Donald J. Trump of the United States."

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Marty Makary: "I believe POTUS has a right to agree with the Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, who has reviewed the scientific literature and said... 'There is a causal relationship between prenatal acetaminophen and the neurodegenerative disorders of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder.'"

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Speaker Johnson on Chuck Schumer pulling us toward a government shutdown with a "laundry list" of partisan demands: "He knows it's a non-starter. He's trying to 'show a fight against Trump,' and it makes absolutely no sense."

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JD Vance: We remain committed to peace, but it takes two to tango—and unfortunately, what we've seen over the last couple of weeks, the Russians have refused to sit down with any bilateral or trilateral meetings... The Russians have got to wake up and accept reality here.

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JD Vance: "This was a grand jury indictment delivered in Alexandria, Virginia—not exactly a hotbed of Donald Trump's political support... When I look at this indictment, I see a guy who lied under oath... The idea that this is driven by politics, I think is preposterous..."

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Senator Fetterman: "It is always, always wrong to shut our government down."

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JD Vance on a potential Gaza deal: "I feel more optimistic about where we are right now than where we have been at any point in the last few months."

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