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The Big Idea: Lawmakers look to turn down the temperature

After a whirlwind week and more information being revealed about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’ s death, top lawmakers on Capitol Hill now seem to be singing the same tune: Tone it down.

House Speaker Mike Johnson , R-La., opened the week with this piece of advice for members: “Be mindful and be thoughtful about how you articulate your policy disputes.”

“We cannot allow policy disagreements to be elevated to this idea that, you know, some side is going to end democracy as we know it, as so many people like to say, or that people are Nazis,” Johnson told reporters on Monday.

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