Senator Chris Murphy
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 11 Mar
Senator Chris Murphy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For instance, the ability to start new military programs that haven't even been authorized by Congress.
At this moment of crisis, that sounds like a really dangerous idea.
And it takes key guardrails off of presidential spending authority.
That allows Trump and Musk to more easily move money from one account to the other.
Now, listen, Trump and Musk are going to keep acting illegally no matter what this funding bill says.
Whether we stop them, that's going to be up to the courts and up to our ability to mobilize people all over the country against their agenda, which is deeply, deeply unpopular.
But by passing a bill that makes their plan easier to implement, Democrats risk putting a kind of bipartisan veneer of endorsement on their campaign to give our government to the billionaires and to destroy the rule of law.
And I just won't be a part of that.
One, I'm going to start with the speech facade, the myth that this is about speech.
What happened to Mahmoud Khalil had nothing to do with speech.
It has everything to do with creating an encampment that is where Zionists are prohibited, where Jewish students are not allowed to walk on their own campus.
These are crimes.
These are deportable events.
They have the technology, get their faces, match it up with the database, and if any of them are non-citizens, every one of them is trespassing.
They all should be deported from this country too.
A man by the name of Mahmoud Khalil, an immigrant and a legal permanent resident of the United States.
is being held right now in prison, even though no criminal charges have been filed against him.
And I want to tell you why that should matter to every single American.
Khalil is a recent graduate of Columbia University.
He opposed Israel's military operation in Gaza.
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