Home of the Brave

"Matt Ashton, owner of Lekko Coffee in Ohio City, says they've seen a steady increase in the price since COVID, but nothing like the volatility the industry is experiencing now."

Sen. Booker: "Because of Donald Trump's attacks on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, we're on the verge of tens of millions of Americans losing their healthcare and most Americans experiencing a significant rise in their healthcare costs."

Sen. Mark Kelly: "Millions of people will lose their healthcare or go bankrupt. When people lose their healthcare, they die. That is the reality of the situation that we're in."

Sen. Mark Kelly: "In Alaska, folks have received letters that their premiums are going up from $600 a month to $4,000 a month. That's unaffordable. And in my state of Arizona, 109,000 people are likely to lose their healthcare."

Kelly: "This comes down to one thing: the price that Americans have to pay for their healthcare. It could be easily fixed...if Mike Johnson would bring back the Republican House and we get together and have a real, bipartisan negotiation about how to bring down these high costs."

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "The Trump administration lies. We have a president who is a known liar."

Q: "Do I hear you correctly that you as Speaker of the House want to see the [ACA] tax credit extended at a future date?"

Speaker Mike Johnson: "No."

Sen. Adam Schiff: "Democrats understand that millions and millions of their constituents are about to be priced out of their healthcare....Premiums are going to go up by $900 to $1,000 a month. No one can afford that."

Speaker Mike Johnson says "Obamacare is not working."

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Twenty-four million Americans are going to have their insurance rates increase. In Arizona, up to 100,000 people are going to lose their insurance."

Tim Dillon: "We kicked a bunch of people off Medicaid in America and close a bunch of rural hospitals — because there's like a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts...And then we put the National Guard in Portland."

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

"What happened to me wasn’t just a mistake—it was a violation of the very protections that our Constitution guarantees."

Tim Dillon:  "We're gonna be using American cities to train our troops? We're going into Portland and we're going into Chicago. This is a bit psychotic."

Tim Dillon: "We don't need the Marines in Chicago...Marines and the National Guard get sent into the cities where that money could have been used to better the lives of the people. That seems to make no sense."

Michael Fanone: " ICE appears to have become a national police force for the Trump administration. This is an agency which is unaccountable to the American people. In a democracy, law enforcement agencies must be accountable to the American people."

Michael Fanone: " Despite Donald Trump thinking that he is America's top law enforcement officer, he is in fact not America's top law enforcement officer."

Michael Fanone: "Pete Hegseth is someone who clearly exhibits imposter syndrome...It should outrage, anger, and terrify every American that our military is being deployed to American cities against the request of local officials...These are not law enforcement officers."

Michael Fanone: "Stephen Miller is an unhinged nerd. I would venture to say that most law enforcement officers in this country don't take him seriously."

Nicolle Wallace: "USAID was instrumental in building a pro-democracy agenda. Did you ever think you'd be talking about applying those principles to your own country?"

Siobhan Green: "Definitely not...It's very disheartening to have to bring that message back home."

Siobhan Green: "They fired all the people at USAID, but USAID has a longstanding history of trying to fight for democratic principles around the world in places that are very authoritarian and very difficult to work in."

Trump: "I'm not gonna start a war, I'm gonna stop wars...Under Trump we will have no more wars...I am the candidate of peace."

Theo Von on Trump's deportation policies: "We're gonna get into a surveillance state...That's where I believe we're headed."

Theo Von on Trump's deportation policies: "We're gonna get into a surveillance state...That's where I believe we're headed."

Theo Von on DHS using him in a deportation snuff film: “My father immigrated here from Nicaragua. One of my prized possessions is…his immigration papers from when he came here — I have them in a frame...This was just fucked up. It was fucked up.”

Gov. Wes Moore: "Donald Trump has been shutting down the federal government since he's been in office. Donald Trump has now fired over 15,000 federal workers in the state of Maryland...I don't think he has an interest in ending the government shutdown."

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recounts meeting Jeffrey Epstein and seeing his massage table:

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on why the Trump administration hasn't released the Epstein files: "My assumption is there was a trade for the videos, 'cause there were people on those videos."

Rep. Brendan Boyle: "Speaker Mike Johnson cancelled session on Monday and Tuesday and sent all of his members home. So it's pretty clear that they wanted this shutdown — they ensured that it would happen."

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Things are already really expensive. Everyday Americans are paying more for cars, housing, and food, and now Republicans—led by Donald Trump—are increasing insurance premiums on 24 million Americans by over 50%."

Rep. Scott Peters: " Insurance companies are sending out letters to people literally today saying premiums are gonna go up because of what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have done...We're gonna see irreversible damage to healthcare in this country."