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“Democrats are starting to cobble together a playbook for the second Trump era: Mock Republicans for their dysfunction, attack the incoming president for being a step behind Elon Musk and keep praising themselves as the adults in the room.”
“Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale.”
— Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Egede said Monday the autonomous island is not for sale after President-elect Donald Trump said owning Greenland “is an absolute necessity” for the U.S., The Hill reports.
“When the media decides to start hedging, or not telling the full story, combined with people being reluctant to engage in political opposition because they fear they will land in jail, that’s just not a democracy any longer. And it’s not like we’re six months away from that. It feels like we might be a month away from a world in which people start to retreat from politics for fear of criminal prosecution, and the media just uses kid gloves in dealing with the regime. I don’t think this is hypothetical two years from now; we may be living in a very restricted democratic space in January.”
— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), speaking to Greg Sargent on The Daily Blast.
“Democrats and Republicans spent months negotiating a bipartisan agreement to fund our government. The richest man on Earth, President Elon Musk, doesn’t like it. Will Republicans kiss the ring?”
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took aim at tech mogul Elon Musk for saying any lawmaker supporting the newly unveiled end-of-the-year continuing resolution funding deal should be voted out of office, The Hill reports.
“If you’re just catching up: the Republican Party, taking orders from the world’s richest man, is on course to shut down the government over the holidays, stopping paychecks for our troops and nutrition benefits for low-income families just in time for Christmas.”
— Hillary Clinton, on X.
“Elon Musk ordered his puppet President-elect and House Republicans to break the bipartisan agreement reached to keep government open. House Republicans are abdicating their responsibility to the American people and siding with billionaires and special interests.”
— Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) joined a growing chorus of Democrats asserting that Elon Musk is directing Donald Trump, after the president-elect came out in opposition to a stopgap spending deal hours after his billionaire adviser heavily criticized it, the Washington Post reports.
“This is how press freedom erodes—not through dramatic crackdowns, but through corporate calculation. When news organizations are owned by massive conglomerates, journalism becomes just another business interest to be traded away when convenient.”
“The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives and held out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease. Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous.”
— Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who battled polio as a child, warned on Friday that anyone seeking a Senate confirmation should “steer clear” of associating with any efforts to undermine public confidence in the polio vaccine, the Washington Post reports.
“We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before world war two. Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.”
–Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in an interview with the Financial Times.
“By all accounts, the incoming administration is determined to return the country to another round of trickle-down economics. On top of that, he seems determined to impose steep, universal tariffs on all important goods brought into this country on the mistaken belief that foreign countries will bear the cost of those tariffs, rather than the American consumer.”
— “President Joe Biden on Tuesday took direct aim at President-elect Donald Trump’s economic agenda, denigrating his plan to impose sweeping tariffs and cut taxes as a ‘major mistake’ that will weaken the economy,” Politico reports.
