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“I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes.”
— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) warned of an “assault on the Constitution” under President Donald Trump, ABC News reports.
“I don’t think there’s any plans to invade Canada.”
— National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, on Meet the Press.
“We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history.”
— Former USAID Director Samantha Power, quoted by the New York Times.
“I rise to announce that the movement to impeach the president has begun. I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done. I also rise to say that the impeachment movement is going to be a grass up movement, not a top down. The people have got to move forward. The people have to demand it, and when the people demand it, it will be done. … On some issues, it is better to stand alone than not stand at all. On this issue, I stand alone, but I stand for justice.”
“I’m not here to suggest that people shouldn’t be alarmed. I think they should be alarmed, but I also think that one of Trump’s great advantages is that he’s a very effective bluffer. And most of this stuff is going to cause a ton of damage, but will eventually be found to be illegal. There’s a real difference between understanding that this is a deadly serious situation and catastrophizing by saying, ‘We’re cooked.’ We are not cooked.”
— Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), in an interview with the New Yorker.
“My heart is with the people out on the street outside USAID, but my head tells me: ‘Man, Trump will be well satisfied to have this fight.’ When you talk about cuts, the first thing people say is: Cut foreign aid.”
— David Axelrod told Politico that Democrats should not try to save the United States Agency for International Development from its illegal gutting at the hands of Elon Musk.
“Elon Musk is not the president, but it does appear that he—a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by Congress—is exercising profound influence over the federal government of the United States, seizing control of information, payments systems, and personnel management. … It is nothing short of an administrative coup.”
“I like omelets better than sex. Not really, but you get the point. You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs.”
— Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), quoted by the Daily Beast, while talking about the cuts at USAID and referring to the agency’s workers “tofu-eating wokerati.”
“There’s probably a couple of kinks in that slinky.”
— Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), quoted by Politico, on President Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to “own” the Gaza Strip.
“We can send them, and he [El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele] will put them in his jails. And he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States, even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents,” reported The New Republic.
— On Tuesday, Secretary of State Rubio and El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced they’d reached an agreement to “outsource” U.S. prisoners to El Salvador’s mega-prison. The agreement was initially supposed to cover alleged gang members, but was expanded.
