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Search results for "A women's sports team was positioned behind men at a White House visit"

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New York Times stated on April 19, 2017 in a tweet:
Images show the turnout for President Donald Trump's 2017 ceremony with the New England Patriots was smaller than the team’s turnout with President Barack Obama in 2015.
By Joshua Gillin• April 20, 2017
Sam Brown stated on October 21, 2024 in an X post:
“Jacky Rosen voted to allow biological men to compete in women’s sports.”
By Seth A. Richardson• October 29, 2024
Joe Biden stated on October 05, 2021 in a speech in Howell, Mich.:
"Thirty years ago, the United States ranked sixth among advanced economies in the share of women in the workforce. You know where we are today? Twenty-three.”
By Louis Jacobson• October 8, 2021
Tommy Tuberville stated on February 22, 2024 in at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference:
The Olympic boxing committee “decided this year that men can box against women in the Olympics.”
By Grace Abels• March 1, 2024
Senate Leadership Fund stated on September 01, 2024 in an ad:
Sen. Jon Tester “voted to let men compete against our girls in their sports.”
By Louis Jacobson• October 31, 2024
The Other 98% stated on March 31, 2016 in a Facebook image:
"Last year (the U.S. women’s soccer team) generated $20 million more than the men’s team and were paid almost four times less."
By Lauren Carroll• April 6, 2016
Pete Hegseth stated on May 26, 2014 in a segment on "Outnumbered":
Redskins is "used historically" as "a term of respect."
By Katie Sanders• June 4, 2014
Donald Trump stated on August 19, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
The Smithsonian Institution includes “nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.”
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson• August 20, 2025
David Cicilline stated on April 17, 2012 in a news release:
Women "earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in the same position."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• June 24, 2012
Viral BuzzFeed stated on April 20, 2015 in video:
Women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.  
By Nancy Badertscher, Jim Tharpe• April 22, 2015
Roger Marshall stated on March 01, 2021 in an op-ed:
A study “suggests that even after two years of hormone therapy, biological boys still maintain significant advantages over girls, including being 12% faster on the 1.5-mile run.”
By Miriam Valverde• March 9, 2021
Donald Trump stated on June 04, 2018 in a tweet:
Philadelphia Eagles players stayed "in the Locker Room for the playing of our our National Anthem" or were "kneeling."
By Michaela Winberg• June 5, 2018
Facebook posts stated on July 08, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Soccer players on the U.S. women’s national team "stomped" on the American flag.
By Ciara O'Rourke• July 25, 2019
Facebook posts stated on April 30, 2024 in a Facebook post:
“The US Women's team has made it clear that they will resign immediately if the Olympic Committee allows Lia Thomas to try out.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 7, 2024
Carly Fiorina stated on January 21, 2015 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
Says President Barack Obama is "not paying women equally by his own measures in his own White House."
By Jon Greenberg• January 22, 2015
Bloggers stated on February 17, 2018 in a post on Facebook:
Starbucks executive "believes white men are the root of all evil."
By Ciara O'Rourke• November 8, 2018
Facebook posts stated on July 21, 2021 in a Facebook post:
A photograph shows members of the U.S. women’s soccer team kneeling during the national anthem at the Tokyo Olympics.
By Madison Czopek• July 26, 2021
Justice Democrats stated on April 25, 2019 in a tweet:
Says Joe Biden "voted for the Iraq War, for mass incarceration, and for the Bankruptcy Reform Act while voting against gay marriage, reproductive rights, and school desegregation."  
By Jon Greenberg• April 26, 2019
Donald Trump stated on February 22, 2026 in a TikTok post:
U.S. men’s hockey Olympian Brady Tkachuk said about the Canadian hockey team, “They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup eating f----s a lesson.”
By Maria Briceño• February 27, 2026
Mitt Romney stated on October 26, 2012 in a campaign mailer:
"Women in Barack Obama's White House are earning less than men."
By Louis Jacobson• October 29, 2012

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