US Democrats call for more aggressive tactics against Trump and Musk: ‘We’re going to be the opposition’ As Trump aims to dismantle large swaths of US government, growing outcry from Democrats appears to be having an effect.
“We should not be complicit in approving Trump’s nominees or Trump’s legislation,” Murphy told the Guardian, arguing that doing so sends the wrong message to Americans whom Democrats are asking to rise up against the Trump administration’s “dangerous slide towards corruption”.
On Wednesday, Senate Democrats held the floor in an all-night protest against Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee to lead the White House budget office and the architect of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for Trump’s second term.
In the weeks since Trump took office, Democrats in Washington have been under increasing pressure from the left to get tougher as the president, with Musk at his side, defies Congress and possibly the constitution.
In the House Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader, has vowed to use Democrats’ leverage in the narrowly divided chamber to protect federal programs that Trump has tried to defund.
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