It is not just the republicans caressed in the local municipalities following President Donald Trump and federal work and the expenses of the multimillionaire advisor Elon Musk.
From Colorado to Maryland, the Democrats have also faced farewell crowds this week who want them to try their fight against Trump. The anger has intensified since the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., directed a group of Democrats to help advance in a financing bill of the Republican Government backed by Trump to avoid a closure of the government, which caused questions about whether the party leaders are up to the task.
Several Democratic legislators also distanced themselves from Schumer, throwing more criticism about their strategy during the financing struggle.
In a town hall on Wednesday night, on the outskirts of Denver, Senator Michael Bennet, D-Col.
An assistant broke in Bennet to vote to confirm several of Trump’s cabinet nominees, including the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins and the Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.
“None of this feels as if you were fighting for us, for Colorado, for our children, for our grandchildren,” an assistant to Bennet told the crowd chewed. “Words are great, but I’m not really seeing any action.”
Towards the beginning of the event, which Bennet had in Golden, Colorado, along with the representative Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo. – Attendees shouted for a full minute when Bennet tried to calm the crowd.
“Hey. Hey! We are not going to do it this way,” Bennet shouted, before shouting repeatedly: “Det it!”
Bennet was also pressured if Schumer should continue to be a Senate Democratic leader. He referred to his call for the then President Joe Biden to take aside during the 2024 campaign.
“By avoiding your question, let me say that it is important that people know, you know, when it’s time to go,” said Bennet. “And I think that in the case of Joe Biden, and we will have future conversations over all democratic leadership.
On Tuesday, representative Glenn Ivey, D-Md., Also questioned how the Democrats would face the efficiency department of the Trump and Musk government.
“We need to see ‘Hell No,’ said an assistant to the people Ivey in a town hall that organized this week in Suitland, a suburbian out of Washington.” And thanks for being educated with us, but when it comes to fighting these fights, we need you to be a little less polite, a little more hell, no, instead of a little. “
In a separate exchange, another assistant repeatedly interrupted the two -period congressman while trying to answer another person’s question: “The camera is on fire. It is not a business as always … this is outrageous … this is Bulls,”.
But Ivey gave a strong applause when he became the first Democratic Member of Congress to ask Schumer to resign his position as party leader.
“I respect Chuck Schumer. I think he has had an excellent and long race.
And in Arizona on Monday, the democratic sensations Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego appeared before a less hostile crowd, but faced specific questions of the attendees about how they would protect the programs they would trust. Kelly encouraged them to make phone calls and go to the offices of the Republican members of Congress.
“They appear in front of your office, tell them how angry you are and how bad this is for our country and how there are people inside the house you tried to burn,” Kelly said.
A democratic movement ‘Tea Party’?
The City Council events underlined the greatest pressure than the Democratic members of Congress are under their base to use all possible tools to block Trump’s agenda, even when they are limited in their role as the minority party in Washington. The scenes reflect the events of 2009, which went simultaneously to the Democratic triofecta that governs in Washington and the members of the Republican minority who were accused of being too passive in opposition.
A recent NBC News survey found that 65% of the Democrats want their chosen representatives to remain in their positions and keep the line against Trump, while 32% favor commitment to it. That is a dramatic change of Trump’s first mandate: a NBC news survey of April 2017 found that 59% of Democrats favored Trump’s commitment, while 33% said legislators should adhere to their positions.
That has also led some progressive activists to ask for a new leadership in Congress. It is an issue that several Democrats refused to address this week while offering criticism to Schumer.
In a town hall in Lowell, Massachusetts, this week, Senator Elizabeth Warren, mass democrat.
Senator Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, dodged a question about Schumer’s future at a press conference in San Francisco, saying that he does not “think of the internal policy of Caucus.”
“We are going to have to do it much better the next time a key problem like this arises,” said Schiff.
For his part, Schumer canceled a book of plans this week in the midst of the violent reaction, citing security concerns. But he has continued to defend his financing strategy in television interviews, saying that a government closure would have resulted in a worse result for federal workers and even more empowers Trump and Musk. And he has ruled out the calls to give up his leadership position.
“I am the best leader for the Senate,” said Tuesday in the mornings of CBS. ”
The frustrations are mounted with legislators in both parties
Meanwhile, few Republican legislators celebrated the municipalities this week during the recess of the Congress after attracting angry and frustrated crowds earlier this year. The representative Richard Hudson, RN.C., president of the National Committee of the Republican Congress, advised the members who do not have in the person in the municipalities in person.
However, one who did it, representative Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., Faced Heckles and Boos on Wednesday night in Laramie, Wyoming, while trying to minimize concerns about Trump and Musk.
“It is so strange to me obsessed that you are with the federal government,” said Hageman, adding that the “hysteria of the attendees is really exaggerated.”
And keep in mind that each Democrat who has celebrated a town hall in recent days received an icy reception.
In a Wednesday City Council in Frederick, Maryland, Democratic representatives. April McClain Delaney and Jamie Raskin faced a multitude in a large part friendly and energized that encouraged the lines about the protection of Medicaid and Social Security and stop Doge in the courts, as well as an beginning of the Democrats who would resume the house in 2026.
Even so, several constituents told NBC News that they were frustrated by the lack of “substance” in the City Council.
Juliana Lufkin, 33, independent resident of Hagerstown, said the legislators were “touching their own horns” when he would have liked to hear a strategy to fight Trump.
“I would have liked to listen to the plan, instead of a bit of touching their own horns and saying the things they are doing and the things we can do. This is not the leadership that we all expect,” Lufkin said.
