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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Sec. Rubio responds to an op-ed from Elliott Abrams, Pres. Trump’s last envoy to Venezuela, writing publicly that “Venezuelan plutocrats, or U.S. oil executives seem to be coming to Mar-a-Lago and whispering about how easy life would be if we just made a deal with the regime once Maduro was gone.”

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells Margaret Brennan this morning the Trump administration’s objectives “when it comes to how Venezuela impacts the national interest of the United States have not changed.”

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

When asked if the U.S. is planning for a transition to have elected leader Edmundo Gonzalez and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado run Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says: “This is not the Middle East. And our mission here is very different. This is the Western Hemisphere.”

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

NEW this morning: When asked by Margaret Brennan if the U.S. plans to occupy Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “the president always retains optionality on anything, and on all these matters.”

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova says that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is "ready to be anywhere" as President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin plan to meet in Alaska without him to discuss the war in Ukraine.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Dr. Jerome Adams, who served as U.S. Surgeon General during President Trump’s first term, says “people are going to die” because of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s cuts to mRNA vaccine research. www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-trum...

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on "Face The Nation" that President Trump “will test" Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Alaska this Friday.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said in an interview on August 1 that tariff rates are "pretty much set" on more than 60 trading partners after President Trump's executive order last week. www.cbsnews.com/news/tariff-...

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said that applications for a fund for rural hospitals will go out in "early September" in the wake of Medicaid cuts in President Trump's signature piece of legislation passed by Congress last month. www.cbsnews.com/news/dr-oz-c...

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan says the bank's economists still expect no movement on interest rates or a recession this year, even after a weak jobs report last week. He said they expect that the U.S. economy "continues to grow," but at "a slow rate."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

President Trump is "absolutely" going to renegotiate the USMCA, a trade deal he secured with Canada and Mexico in his first term, says Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons tells CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez that the agency is "100 percent" planning to hold employers accountable for hiring undocumented immigrants. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hea...

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says he and a Democratic senator, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, are leading 85 cosponsors on a sanctions bill that he said would make a "sledgehammer available to President Trump to go after Putin's economy and all those countries who prop up the Putin war machine."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

One year after the attempted assassination of President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says "I think we aren’t going to know the motive" of the shooter. Investigators “have tried their best,” Paul says. “I don't think there's a secret answer that they’re not revealing to us.”

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

As the deadline approaches this week for President Trump's "reciprocal tariffs" on other countries, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett says some negotiations may "push back past the deadline," even as the White House is expecting deals to be struck by Wednesday.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) warns of rising inflation, growing health care costs, and high interest rates resulting from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill.” "It's going to do a lot of things that are going to hurt a lot of people in our country," he says.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) says House Republicans "know the peril they're in if they vote no" on President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," because "our base back home will not reelect us to office if we vote no on this."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), the top Democrat on the House China Committee, says the Trump administration's new plan to "aggressively" revoke student visas for Chinese students "is terribly misguided, and it appears prejudicial and discriminatory."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says he has seen "no organized business interest" in his state for President Trump's tariffs, citing opposition he has heard from industries including farming, cargo, construction and bourbon.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says he thinks there are now four Senate Republicans who would vote to block President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," and "I would be very surprised if the bill at least is not modified in a good direction."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says "the math doesn't really add up" on President Trump's "one big, beautiful bill," as the bill's increases in federal spending "exceeds the DOGE cuts." www.cbsnews.com/news/rand-pa...

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Cindy McCain, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, says she has seen no evidence behind Israel's claims that Hamas carried out the looting of food trucks that entered southern Gaza en route to bakeries.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A provision tucked into President Trump's "one big, beautiful bill" that passed the House would restrict federal courts' ability to enforce some injunctions. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says that the Senate may take this out, but it was meant to restrict "activist judges."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., says Russia's most recent attack on Kyiv was overnight, and that Russia has been using drones against "completely civilian targets." "Every day, regardless of what Russia says, there are some attacks and there are civilian casualties."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

"Poorer people end up paying a disproportionate percentage of the tariffs, because they spend 100% of their paychecks on goods," says Gary Cohn, vice chairman of IBM and a former top economic adviser to President Trump in his first term. "The tariffs are going to affect the poorer people more."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says the Trump administration needs to "put up or shut up in court" regarding its accusation that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, is a member of the MS-13 gang.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) says he's not concerned about how President Trump's tariffs will affect Republicans in the 2026 midterms, as he believes Republicans will take measures to ensure the economy is "on the right track" by then.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

As a conservative group challenges President Trump's new tariffs in court, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) is asked whether the dispute over the tariffs will ultimately be settled by the judiciary.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) says he will introduce legislation in the House to give Congress more control over tariffs, as a bipartisan effort for this is also happening in the Senate. "We gave some of that power to the executive branch. And I think, in hindsight, that was a mistake."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) says he thinks the Trump administration "is doing the right thing" in being more aggressive against the Iranian-backed Houthis militant group. "I think the Biden administration took repeated action against the Houthis. I think they could have done more."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

In our new CBS News poll, 75% of Americans said the Trump administration's Signal group chat controversy was either "very serious" or "somewhat serious," and a majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents all said using Signal to discuss military plans was "not appropriate."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says after the Trump administration's Signal group chat controversy: "Everyone is warned in the intelligence community — do not use Signal for classified information."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

After President Trump's cuts to the U.S. Education Department, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says he'd like to see "an NBA or NFL of teachers," with "the most extraordinary teachers" reaching "the entire country" or "the entire world" virtually. www.cbsnews.com/news/rand-pa...

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

President Trump's decision to hit Canada with tariffs "really is about fentanyl," says Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. "The president obviously wants a strong economy, obviously wants better trade deals as well," she says. "But this is about fentanyl."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) explains why he was one of 10 Democrats who voted to censure Rep. Al Green (D-TX) for disrupting President Trump's joint address to Congress: "If it was a Republican doing the same thing to a Democratic president, I would have voted for that as well."

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

CBS News polling shows a big difference between what Americans think President Trump ought to prioritize (inflation and the economy) and what they think he's prioritizing (the federal workforce, tariffs and the U.S.-Mexico border).

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the Treasury Department is going to appoint an "affordability czar," which he says will be "someone who picks the five or eight areas where this administration can make a big difference for working class Americans." www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-b...

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she will cooperate with other Democratic governors to push back on the Trump administration's efforts to target some of their policies. "We're not going to sit by and let our rights be attacked," she says. www.cbsnews.com/news/kathy-h...

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) says he would urge the Trump administration to "move more expeditiously" on implementing waivers for humanitarian aid that had been paused amid the cuts to USAID made by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

When asked about DOGE and the influence of Elon Musk, a new CBS News poll finds Republicans tend to think Musk should have at least some influence over government operations and spending, though not necessarily "a lot" of influence, while Democrats tend to say he should have none, or not much.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Just three weeks into his second term, 53% of Americans approve of the job President Trump is doing — a higher approval rating than he ever received during his first term, a new CBS News Poll finds.

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Face The Nation @facethenation.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Tom Hart, the head of the NGO coalition InterAction, says the pause on U.S. foreign assistance has been "devastating." He says: "When America is there…we are able to close off space to malign actors, but when we take our assistance and go home, that does create a void that others want to fill.”

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