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Portland, your energy last night was top tier!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our Students vs. Billionaires Town Hall and asked incredible questions.
@AOC: The House and the Senate have always been institutions for the ruling class in America. Susan Collins is a member of that ruling class. They don’t like that it breaks the rules for @TroyJackson207 to go in there.
Trans voter to @AOC: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that?
AOC:
Young Maine voter: How do we prevent ICE agents from taking our community members?
@TroyJackson207: I've been saying for months now, we should defund ICE. We should abolish ICE.
@AOC: The trillion dollars in health care cuts that Susan Collins paved the way for is threatening the closure of our rural hospitals and our urban hospitals alike. But the first thing to go in every one of these systems is Labor & Delivery and OBGYN.
Maine voter: What are your plans on Day 1?
@AOC: We will be opening investigations into the heads of every single one of these agencies. We will never get our country back if we allow criminals to have cabinet seats in the United States.
Maine college student: I'm on the autism spectrum. What can be done in the House of Representatives to push back the narrative that Tylenol causes autism?
@aoc: We need to get big money out of politics so that we can have qualified professionals making these reviews.
Maine student: How can we bring back more privacy online?
@TroyJackson207: "We need real regulation to protect people, especially young people. That's what the billionaires are spending money in Maine to prevent."
LIVE: @AOC and @TroyJackson207 are speaking with students in Portland, Maine, at our latest Students vs Billionaires town hall, answering questions about the issues that matter to them most. https://t.co/UKuhL4Jy8i
"This is why we have government, so you don’t have to ask a private actor to do the right thing when it puts him at a disadvantage. You set a floor that everybody has to follow."
- @PeteButtigieg on AI
@PeteButtigieg on the Trump admin being held accountable for targeting universities, museums, and national parks:
"We are making clear that corruption and abuse is not an academic crime. It hurts real people, and that’s why it has to change."