Maggie Hassan

American politician (born 1958)

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The American people want their tax dollars to go towards helping them and keeping them safe, not propaganda campaigns for a president. He’s welcome to run whatever ads he wants with his own riches, but with taxpayer dollars, money that people have worked hard to earn, he needs to follow the law.”
  • On the Senate floor on Tuesday, as she introduced her resolution, Hassan said
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The advertisement does not have a clear official government purpose and appears to run afoul of federal prohibitions against the use of appropriated funds as part of 'a general propaganda effort designed to aid a political party or candidates,
The advertisement raises deep concerns about the Trump Administration’s use of taxpayer dollars and its compliance with federal laws that prohibit the use of appropriated funds for the promotion of a political party or candidate,
If directed by the president to take action that would break the law, would you follow the law or follow the president's directive?”
It must be enormously frustrating to know that this hearing is designed to entrap you.”
  • Senator Maggie Hassan, Democrat of New Hampshire, began by thanking Dr. Fauci, who took his first job at the National Institutes of Health in 1968, for “more than 50 years of service to this country,” adding
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I’m sad that I can’t support her, but I really thought she was too evasive in the hearing,

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