Democrats pounce as Trump retreats on federal spending freeze
By: Stephen Neukam, Andrew Solender, Hans Nichols (AXIOS)
Democrats are desperate to find issues that divide the country. Schumer and Jeffries are prepared to go to war over the Federal funding freeze. That Trump already rescinded. And has already fallen off the news cycle.
Doesn't matter. Democrats just love screaming at the sky to get attention. Democrats do realize that Kamala Harris tried this and lost, don't they?
In the age of AI, why were three journalists needed to publish this article? Looks like the unbiased liberal press is as desperate as Democrats to regain public attention.
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Top congressional Democrats smell blood over President Trump's federal spending freeze .
Why it matters: The base is loving the party's muscular signs of life and wants more. Phone lines lit up in Democratic offices on Wednesday, sources told Axios.
- "This is only the beginning," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told House Dems on an emergency call Wednesday afternoon.
- House Democrats are planning a "day of action" Thursday on the funding freeze, even after the White House withdrew the memo and blamed media coverage for the public's confusion.
Zoom in: The Trump White House is in retreat.
- Top Trump advisers said the memo was an unforced error and skipped the proper channels, the N.Y. Times reported on Wednesday.
Now, Democrats will try to turn the public backlash into durable opposition to other (and more popular) parts of his agenda.
- Senate Dems will flood the floor into the overnight hours Wednesday night with speeches about the dangers of Trump's move.
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has demanded the creation of "strike teams" to combat the budget reconciliation plan by Republicans, sources tell Axios.
The bottom line: After weeks of internal frustration over his leadership, Schumer has taken a heavier hand.
- Schumer obsesses over issue polling and privately acknowledges that some of Trump's priorities play well with voters.
- But the magnitude and scope of the OMB memo jumped out to Schumer and leadership as a massive overstep by Trump.
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Democrat leadership seem to think the sheep will bleat a path to their door if they pound the podium hard enough.
They have no idea how out of touch with the American people they really are....or are in deep denial about it,