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I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President,
the Washington National Cathedral's Mariann Edgar Budde told an unsmiling Trump, seated in the front pew for the customary inaugural service next to his wife Melania I thought their sentences were ridiculous and excessive,
This monumental undertaking is a resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential,
She is not very good at her job! She and her church owe the public an apology!"
Senator, that’s part of the deliberative process the transition goes through, and I’m not going to invade that deliberative process,
It’s 104 pages of details to end ‘woke and weaponized’ government, and it proposes deep cuts to the SNAP program that provides nutrition assistance to low-income kids,
Kaine said, but was cut off by Vought, who said I want to get to woke and weaponized,
In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,
Budde said during her sermon yesterday I wanted to emphasize respecting the honor and dignity of every human being, basic honesty, and humility, ... I was trying to counter the narrative that is so, so divisive and polarizing and in which people, real people, are being harmed."
she said in an interview on ABC's "The View." I can’t give you a comprehensive answer. With regard to where the executive orders were compiled, my assumption is that they were compiled within the transition.”
Vought refused to answer again, saying Because Social Security and Medicare, in particular, are large, mathematical drivers of this spending growth, fiscal seriousness demanded that they be the lead ox to be gored,
the center's 2023 budget proposal states The question is, did you advise on executive orders? And which ones if so?”
They were phony charges. I never touched anybody that day, but they don’t care. They don’t care what it is. They’ll put grandmas in jail just because they walked into the Capitol that day,
President Trump fired off 26 executive orders, I believe on his first day. Are you familiar with them? Did you have any role in preparing any of them?”
When we refer to the federal government being weaponized, we’re referring to bureaucracies.”
Pushing back, Vought said Do you know, for instance, if some of them came out of language from the Center for Renewing America, or some of them came out of Project 2025 or some of them came out of the Heritage Institute, or some of them came out of the American Petroleum Institute?”
I think what matters most here about this issue is that hundreds of violent criminals who assaulted police officers were pardoned just because their assault on police officers took place as part of the Jan. 6 riot, something that President Trump thinks was fine,
The Capitol Police officers are the backbone of Congress — every day they protect and serve the halls of democracy. I strongly denounce the blanket pardons given to the violent offenders who assaulted these brave men and women in uniform,
They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues.”
Looking at Trump, she added I can’t imagine being safe right now,
