Washington-La Ráfaga of Actions of President Donald Trump in his first week hit the Democrats on his heels, dividing the party on how to respond to the main parts of his agenda and several of his high profile nominees.
But on Monday, Trump’s casual attempt to impose a radical freezing in federal aid throughout the government aroused the Democrats to a furious opposition. The pressure, together with the chaos and confusion that caused, stimulated the White House to go back two days later and rescind the budget note.
Trump’s movement involuntarily delivered the political gift of a unified message, focused on the pocket problems that believe they can relive the brand made of the party and recover power after a blunt death in the 2024 elections. After days of internal clashes on whether to resist or be conciliatory to parts of the president’s agenda. And created nerves within the Republican party, putting the party in defense while sought to minimize the scope of the White House order.
“Yesterday was the first day I really felt good about the messages of Democrats in six months,” a Democratic strategist to NBC News told. “Because it was an economic message and we were very unified.”
They blamed Trump’s order to crash through Medicaid’s refund portals, which crossed the country after freezing. They warned that the White House directive could stop the development of early childhood, medical care and housing funds. And the Democrats said that cancer investigation, police and fire programs could be trapped in their point of view. They argued that all that was a ploy without law to give way to the Trump tax cuts agenda for superiors.
Within a Democratic lunch meeting on Wednesday, the leader of the Senate minor It was “Trump’s beginning” that tried to promulgate his “2025 project” the agenda, according to a person familiar with his comments, refers to the conservative policy plan to dismantle much of the United States government. He encouraged them to continue maintaining the pressure on the Republicans, the source added.
“It is a small victory, but it is a long war, and we have to continue fighting,” Schumer told journalists after the meeting.
After Trump’s election for the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy unanimously advanced on Monday, 22 Senate Democrats turned to vote “no” the next day on the final vote in protest for Trump’s action.
Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat of Conn., Said that Trump’s attempt to stop federal money was a call for attention to the Democrats.
“I think there were some people who were afraid of crying Wolf, who now realize that the wolf has been in our living room all the time,” Murphy said. “We have to make some decisions about how we are going to lead ourselves. No one will believe us abroad that this is a five alarms fire if we are helping them approve legislation and confirm the nominees inside. “
With the chamber at recess this week, the minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., organized what he called a virtual “emergency” meeting with base democrats, scheduled for 1 pm on Wednesday afternoon, to discuss How the game would fight Trump’s freezing.
The “Triple approach,” he wrote to colleagues, would focus on legislation, litigation and intense messages.
But minutes before that emergency meeting, Trump’s officials rescinded the order, which led the Democrats to take a minor victory. Jeffries transmitted to its members that the aggressive opposition to the freezing of democrats and allied external groups led to the termination of the order by Trump, said a person in the call.
In the call, Jeffries told the Democrats that they should rely on the “intensity, simplicity and repetition” in their messages to counteract Trump’s attempts to flood the area, according to a second person in the call. In line with that, the Democrats have highlighted programs that are easily identifiable for voters, such as Medicaid, Meals On Wheels and Head Start.
And Jeffries left his troops with this message, according to two sources: the Democrats won this round, but this is only the beginning of the fight. Keep it up.
“Unfortunately, this is the plan for the Trump administration and for the republican majority. They are looking to reduce programs and reduce services so that they can finance tax exemptions for billionaires, ”said Veronica Escobar representative, D-Texas, a member of the Assignments Committee that supervises federal expense, in an interview.
“Even if there were any kind of victory today with the withdrawal of the note, this battle is ongoing,” Escobar continued. “And his effort to effectively defuse the federal government to provide these tax cuts will be a continuous struggle.”
Democrats are not taking off the foot of the gas. The Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, or DPCC, directed by the representative Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., Urged the rank members to participate in a “day of action” on Thursday to draw attention to the negative impacts of the negative impacts of the President. Freeze, according to a copy of a messaging memorandum obtained by NBC News.
“The impact is not theoretical, and we must make it clear that this action will cause great damage to the communities we serve,” said DPCC memorandum.
“Now is the time that each Chamber Democrat organizes an event, meets with the voters, talk to local media and clarify the bets of the Republican fraud and its consequences for US working taxpayers,” added the memorandum.
Although the Trump administration terminated its wide order to freeze subsidies and federal loans, after a court had temporarily blocked it, Trump’s executive orders that freeze foreign aid, subsidies received for purposes related to DEI and the appropriate funds to through the inflation reduction law they remain in place.
In a telephone interview, Escobar said he jumped to the action on Tuesday, only a few hours he learned of the freezing in X. He called the city officials and the county, the health clinics, the public hospitals and other federal receptors of Subsidies to learn how they were affecting. And he quickly convened a press conference in the passage with the County Executive and head of the Local Commission of the Labor Force to sound the alarm on who could be harmed by freezing.
“We assured the community that we were going to continue fighting for them, and that we would provide as much information as possible. And it was, it was actually moments before we faced the cameras for the press conference when we learned that the court had allowed a temporary stay, ”said Escobar. “It is a very fast and fast situation that changes.”