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If we don't stop it and get Congress to do something, it's an attack on democracy,
she warned, as quoted by AP I'm appalled by democracy's changes in the last, well, specifically two weeks—but it started a long time ago,
said Margaret Wilmeth, a protester in Ohio, as quoted by the Associated Press We are taking a thoughtful approach to see where there may be opportunities for more effective and efficient use of resources in line with meeting the goals of President Trump,
The president wants to shut down USAID? He can have one of his Republican friends introduce legislation to do that, and it will be debated,
He campaigned across the country with Elon Musk, vowing that Elon was going to head up the Department of Government Efficiency and the two of them, with a great team around them, were going to look at the receipts of this federal government and ensure it’s accountable to American taxpayers,
What we’re trying to do is put a human face right on the fact that these are not just bureaucracies. These are not sleepy, tired, old, outdated, outmoded agencies. These are real people,
Our ask for Democrats right now is, if this is a crisis, you should act like it’s a crisis,
It’s letting a small group of unelected people, secret, run rampant through the executive branch accessing the private data millions of Americans need, and God knows what they’re going to do with it,
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said of DOGE Tuesday We need to be going to places and say, ‘Elon Musk now has your Social Security number,
Musk is acting like you essentially gave Paul Ryan a whole bunch of stimulants and then set him loose in the government,
said Dennis, referring to the former House speaker and deficit hawk They did however vote for Donald Trump who promised repeatedly to have Elon Musk root out wasteful spending in our government.”
In response to Democrats’ rallying cry that Is he using his access to extraordinary amounts of confidential and sensitive data to advantage his own personal interests? We don’t know,
If Elon Musk can make up his own government department, so can workers,
Liz Shuler, the president of AFL-CIO, told CNN in an interview Elon Musk taking over the government payment systems was not on the bingo card,
While Democrats envisioned a range of scenarios for the first 100 days of the Trump administration ... the person said The ongoing operations of DOGE may be seen as disruptive by those entrenched in the federal bureaucracy, who resist change,
the official said in a statement They can’t pass a debt ceiling increase without the Democrats. Every single Democratic House and Senate member should say on the record that we will not vote for a debt ceiling increase unless we have an ironclad commitment from President Trump and the Office of Budget and Management to spend every single dollar that Congress appropriates,
Khanna said in an interview We have to reach out to everyone in this country — conservatives, liberals, Republicans, Democrats — and tell them that we have not months, we have not weeks, but we have days to stop the destruction of our democracy,
When Trump blunders — whether it’s with the funding freeze, with tariffs or with the next big thing, eliminating the Department of Education — we must be ready to pounce and make Republicans pay,
I don’t think you could ever get a budget again in the United States Congress, under anyone, if we don’t start setting up rules that the law is a law,
We are just 15 days into the Trump presidency, but it is obvious that there are two words that sum up what Republicans are doing: chaos and corruption,
Dingell told her colleagues, according to the source
