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Michael McCaul stated on January 19, 2024 in an impeachment hearing:

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' border policy is "personally responsible" for fentanyl crossing the border

By Bayliss Wagner• February 12, 2024

Pete Buttigieg stated on August 28, 2019 in a tweet:

Says President Donald Trump has been "taking money Congress authorized to protect people facing disaster in order to indefinitely detain asylum seekers."

By Louis Jacobson• August 30, 2019

Alison Lundergan Grimes stated on October 06, 2014 in a campaign ad:

"The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell."

By Steve Contorno• October 8, 2014

Shawn Lindsay stated on February 09, 2011 in an e-mail:

Says John Kitzhaber’s proposed budget for upcoming biennium represents 8 percent increase over last

By Ian K. Kullgren• February 18, 2011

Facebook posts stated on December 29, 2019 in a social media post:

"Elaine Chao BUSTED Sending $97 Million Contract To Help Mitch McConnell Win Reelection."

By Tom Kertscher• January 9, 2020

John Boehner stated on March 01, 2015 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":

On immigration, "the president said 22 times, 22 times, that he couldn't do what he eventually did."

By Katie Sanders• March 1, 2015

Pete Buttigieg stated on August 05, 2019 in a Medium post:

"The Trump Administration cut funding allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to combat white nationalism."

By Amy Sherman• August 9, 2019

Bloggers stated on July 09, 2016 in a story:

Ninety pounds of cocaine was found on a boat owned by Mitch McConnell's family and that they are “financing his Senate campaigns with their cocaine drug profits.”

By Samantha Putterman• February 26, 2020

Ruben Kihuen stated on August 15, 2016 in a press conference:

"In Congress, (Cresent Hardy) voted to defund DACA."

By Riley Snyder• August 25, 2016

Joni Ernst stated on May 28, 2022 in a newsletter:

$3 million per day in "your tax dollars" are being spent to guard "unused border wall materials."

By Nina Baker• June 16, 2022

Barack Obama stated on April 14, 2011 in an interview with George Stephanopoulos:

On whether the federal debt limit should be raised

By Angie Drobnic Holan• April 29, 2011

Ashley Moody stated on March 03, 2026 in a Senate hearing:

The Biden administration "reversed" a policy of deporting people in the country illegally who have committed felonies.

By Samantha Putterman• March 5, 2026

Jon Favreau stated on July 08, 2025 in Pod Save America:

“ICE will now become the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency, bigger than the FBI, bigger than the DEA.”

By Amy Sherman• July 11, 2025

Sergio Marchionne stated on May 24, 2011 in a press release:

"Less than two years ago, we made a commitment to repay the U.S. . . .taxpayers in full, and today we made good on that promise."

By Robert Farley• May 26, 2011

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on June 27, 2024 in an X livestream:

Border Patrol agents take migrants "to the Yuma airport, put them on a plane to any destination they want. ... And they pay their ticket. And then they get reimbursement from FEMA."

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 3, 2024

Michael McCaul stated on June 30, 2024 in an interview:

“(Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro) Mayorkas said, ‘Hey you don’t have to detain aggravated felons,’ those are rapists, child predators, you know, murderers.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 11, 2024

Don Blankenship stated on May 01, 2018 in a debate:

"Mitch McConnell was one of the few senators that voted after Tiananmen Square not to have punitive actions against China for human rights violations."

By Louis Jacobson• May 3, 2018

Rick Scott stated on March 01, 2021 in an interview with CBS News:

The $1.9 trillion relief package is “about a bridge for Chuck Schumer, a tunnel for Nancy Pelosi.”

By Jon Greenberg• March 2, 2021

Joe Biden stated on August 31, 2020 in a speech:

"When I was vice president, violent crime fell 15% in this country. ... The murder rate now is up 26% across the nation this year under Donald Trump."

By Miriam Valverde• September 3, 2020

Armond Budish stated on November 03, 2011 in a news conference:

Dem-controlled Ohio House voted "to change the process, to create objective criteria, to modify the Constitution" ... to "take politics out of the efforts to draw legislative boundaries."

By Joe Guillen• November 23, 2011

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