Democrats who called Trump a "threat to democracy" now delay democracy | Fox News
By: Deirdre Heavey (Fox News)
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Senators launch marathon session to protest Elon Musk and DOGE
Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on the Senate's all-night session by Democrats meant to protest spending cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency.
American voters overwhelmingly elected President Donald Trump to carry out his "Make America Great Again" agenda despite Democrats calling him a "threat to democracy." Now that Trump is back in the White House, Dems are delaying key cabinet appointments and vowing to "blow this place up" in the name of democracy.
Several Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are calling for a halt to all of Trump's cabinet nominations. Protests hosted by lawmakers have erupted in Washington, D.C., this week as Democrats rally against Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
"God d---it shut down the Senate!" Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., said during an anti-DOGE protest in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. "We are at war!"
While Democrats spent 2024 promising Americans they were the party who would protect democracy and uphold the rule of law in a post-Jan. 6 world, they are dancing to the beat of a new drum in 2025 by practicing civil disobedience.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., told the crowd Tuesday, "We are here to fight back."
"We are gonna be in your face, we are gonna be on your a--es and we are going to make sure you understand what democracy looks like, and this ain't it," Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, added.
Democrats have doubled down on their call to action this week after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Americans to "fight" Trump's agenda "in the streets" last week.
"We have to stand up and protest," Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass, said at another rally in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. "When we come back here the next time, there should be hundreds of thousands and millions of people descending on Washington, D.C."
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"We will fight their violation of civil service laws. We will fight their violation of civil rights laws. We will fight their violations of separation of powers. We will fight their violations of our Constitution of the United States of America. We will not shut up. We will stick up. We will rise up," Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., added.
Democrats held an all-night session Wednesday protesting Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Russell Vought, who served as OMB director during Trump's first term, was a key architect of Project 2025. Democratic candidates and surrogates during the 2024 campaign cycle pointed to Project 2025 as proof of Trump's "threat to democracy." Trump maintained he had nothing to do with it.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Vought is a "horrible, dangerous man" at the rally Tuesday.
An employee of the U.S. Agency for International Development who wished to remain anonymous protests outside of the USAID headquarters Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Getty Images)
Democratic leaders and their constituents have spent all week protesting in major cities across the country. From Texas to California, protesters are speaking out against Trump's ICE raids and federal government layoffs and the administration's stance that there are two genders.
Despite the Democrats' protests, the Trump administration said it is following through on the agenda the American people voted for, and those who "incite violence" should be held accountable.
"President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people to make this government more efficient," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. "For Democratic officials to incite violence and encourage Americans to take to the streets is incredibly alarming, and they should be held accountable for that rhetoric.
"If you heard that type of violent, enticing rhetoric from our side of the aisle, from Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, I think there would be a lot more outrage in this room today. It's unacceptable."
Deirdre Heavey is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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Gotta love ya some Democrat idle threats. Don't think there is any one of these elites who would dare risk it........of course, there is always the grift of getting a new one for nothing
Not surprising. Seeing their partisan patronage network attacked will galvanize them in ways nothing else could. Inflation, natural disasters, failing schools etc don't handle to cutting off the grift in motivating partisan Democrats.
To be fair, Republicans do the same shit when they are the minority party. Such is the state of our highly partisan politics where the elected officials first allegiance is to their party way before any concern about the people. IMO it came out into the open when Mitch McConnell stated it was their duty to make Obama a one term president. That genie has not gone back into the bottle, don't think it ever will without a second American Revolution.
REpublicans don't really have a patronage network made up of federal taxpayer dollars. There's obviously some, but it's small potatoes when compared to the Democrats, evidenced by their all hands on board approach from the media to the Senate to protect the bureaucracy and wanton spending on self evidently ridiculous things..
IMO it came out into the open when Mitch McConnell stated it was their duty to make Obama a one term president.
Has there ever been a Senate leader, in history, who didn't try to keep a President from the opposing President from being reelected? If there was, I can't think of it off the top of my head. I've never understood why McConnell saying he wanted Obama to be a one term President was a big deal.
Because that's when it really came out in the open. Prior to that IMO we had many more members of the two parties who would work with the "other" side for the good of the people and now that's almost forbidden. Between that and the rejection of the good in search of the perfect has led us to government that gets little done.
I would have to agree with you on this. The two parties once strived to work together through compromise. No longer is that the case, but the face, it is of our country, and not good for either side.
I doubt the Ds can do anything but it is needed given irresponsible nominations such as Hegseth have been confirmed by the Senate. Clearly the Senate, the GOP majority, is rubber-stamping Trump's irresponsible choices.
Let's say this country flourishes and all Americans do well.
Will you retract your negative statements about Trump and his cabinet and admit you were wrong about them?
That is a stupid question.
My criticism of Trump's acts and rhetoric depend on the specific circumstances. So when Trump does something good (e.g. the AI initiative) that will noted as good. But when he does something bad (e.g. idiotically promote the Middle East "Riveria") that will be criticized. Trouble with Trump is that he does far more bad than good. Thus the criticism is mostly negative.
To not do that is idiotic because criticism and praise depend upon the specifics.
So, if at the end of Trump's term, if the country continues to flourish I will give him credit for not fucking that up. But I will not then categorically deem all of his decisions to be correct.
Think now of Biden. You criticize Biden all the time (still) yet at the end of his term the nation was flourishing (unless you believe Trump's negative bullshit). Have you retracted every bad thing you said about Biden given our GDP was great, our energy exports were record setting, inflation was back to normal, unemployment was low, COVID is no longer a major threat, etc.? No? Do the math.
i want what you are smoking
Count this as recorded response. We'll see.
"But I will not then categorically deem all of his decisions to be correct."
No one said you should.
"Think now of Biden"
Here comes the expected deflection. Not going there because, according to someone on here, and I paraphrase, I do not wish to opine on things that are not worth opining on.
What if I told you I was smoking shit. You still want some?
I would definitely believe U
Not what I asked.
You specifically said you wanted what I was smoking.
I gave you a theoretical.
Do you still want some?
An obnoxious, pointless game:
You expected me to retract all my statements about Trump ... and his cabinet ... and admit I was wrong. So what does "all my statements about Trump" mean to you?
Standard bullshit when you do not have a rebuttal.
Well, since 99.9 percent of them have to do with him being a "scoundrel", a word no one has used in more than 60 years, he is a danger to democracy, and he is damaging "international relations", that pretty much sums it up.
That is the problem with your question and subsequent responses; you simplistically summarize everything into a binary: good or bad. Reality is not so simplistic.
And, again, you should realize this by my question. The USA, when Biden left office, was in good shape by any historical measure. Not perfect, but certainly good. But you would not take that high level binary summary and then claim that all your criticism of Biden was wrong.
So, again, do the math.
Thank you for your opinion.
Have a good day.....
You probably don't.
are you sure you want to go there ? Cause I haven't been able to vent that which is pent, and to a massive extent, I just might have more than you actually wish to hear about more than you wish to hear. As 'Do you still want some?' Signafy's a challenge set forth, that I will take on irregardless of who the challenger might be.
Now in reference to what you are smoking, the stuff that appears to be choking off the oxygen flow to your brain, i'd have to pass, cause if I was wishing to hallucinate, i'd find some slippery acid, that i would keep dropping, cause it's slippery. Or I would become a really fun guy, on magical mushrooms where sled dogs got to school like fish but dryer.
The slowing down of this mentally misguided more than ample proof already provided, is a mission that the Dems had better take seriously and via detours and challenges, damn provide it !
This is damn blatant 2025 jive. You know, the plan Trump claimed to never of heard of...?
What happened to his #1 bringing down inflation and prices across the board ? As all he's done is INCREASE them with threats and tariffs misguided is the truth, possibly some ought to buy it. His immigration plans will only increase prices as these American kids are too entitled to do such demeaning work, and you know this is true. His scare and dare has proven effective in theory, but where the rubber meets his tongue, a reservoir tip, cause the short ribbed on any given Eve, has prated to the deceive and detriment to what he can actually achieve, and what he lied about actually doing. Never hears of 2025, sakes alive, what a bunch of jive, as he employed the majority authors prior, and now did hire, but go on and up fire, smoke that shit and be left in the dust of the Trump lust you as well as all of US, will now be left to clear, think I'll wash it down with an ice cold BEER !
Yes because less than 3 weeks into his term will determines the entirety of his 4 years s/
Too bad you did not see the failure of the Biden admin zooming straight toward you early in that disaster.
The first half of your rant is nothing but babble. I don't respond to babble.
Seems like you are familiar with it.
I've never done drugs in my life so I can't agree with you.
The USA, when Biden left office, was in good shape by any historical measure. Not perfect, but certainly good. But you would not take that high level binary summary and then claim that all your criticism of Biden was wrong.
So your answer is no.
Distilling this down to a childishly simplistic yes or no is a perfect way to NOT understand my response.
If this answer is not clear to you, then ask a thoughtful question and I will clarify.
You criticize Biden all the time (still) yet at the end of his term the nation was flourishing (unless you believe Trump's negative bullshit). Have you retracted every bad thing you said about Biden given our GDP was great, our energy exports were record setting, inflation was back to normal, unemployment was low, COVID is no longer a major threat, etc.?
I stated was was clear to me. And you write a thesis rambling on about something that I didn't even mention nobody is going to read or care about.
Well then, I suppose I'll have to assume the delusions of an America under Trump that "flourishes and all Americans do well" while he and his vindictive cabal are actively attacking many loyal patriotic Americans must come from getting high on airplane contrails...
If you were clear then there was no need to ask me a question.
And of course you ignore my question.
Your question is irrelevant to my statement. Or was that too complex?
Continuous to flourish?
You are hilarious.
Ignore all the indicators and the people being hurt by the economy and inflation. Ignore all of the illegals let in by the Biden administration. Ignore reality. Think of all of the billions wasted on worthless proxy wars. Iran made strong again by Brandon dropping sanctions and returning billions to them- all in vain effort to get Iran to go back to a nuclear agreement they never honored to begin with.
Your definition of "flourishing" needs a complete and utter rework.
You forgot the most important indicator of all. If the nation was flourishing then Biden (or Harris) would be the president.
The only problems with the economy is the prices resulting from prior inflation and interest rates.
You are ignoring the fact that our GDP continues to rise, the stock market is at record levels, our energy production continues to break records, inflation at 2.9% is close to ideal of 2% (compared to 8%), etc.
What indicators do you have in mind other than consumer prices and interest rates?
Trump is not going to be able to lower prices; he is far more likely to exacerbate inflation. Interest rates are out of his control. So what do you think Trump will do to make the economy flourish under whatever ridiculous notion you have in mind?
Here is my prediction, you will claim the economy sucked under Biden and that it is great under Trump. And the facts will not matter to you, just the partisan politics.
Biden had nothing to do with anything positive that happened during his term. If so, show us the evidence.
But he is responsible for everything bad?? Right? You blame him for all the bad and refuse to give him any credit.
What is the point of making such obviously ridiculous claims? Do you think this influences anyone? Do you think it helps you in some way?
Just amazing ...
Right off the bat, do you seriously NOT give Biden credit for getting the COVID-19 vaccines distributed and overseeing the end of the pandemic in the USA? Or do you think that distributing the vaccines effectively was a bad thing for our nation?
You have to understand that to those on the left, Biden trying to destroy this country constitutes flourishing……..in a socialist way
The wild eyed autocrats are screaming at the sky. Too bad they can't stack the courts.
This is what I see Norm. Something i plagiarized cause its easier.
If that were actually the case, Trump would not be President of these "United" states me.
This immunized and despised by any non corrupted & manipulated honest true interpretation of the true backboner of this once great nation, that is currently in a freefalling upon impact devastation direction, due to the purposely by design deviation from the set standards and norms that helped build and carry on in the sustentation that has been now impeded, and this was achieved buy the Quarts activation causing the results from a dire election to be the infection as is known as our current direction.
As i pointed out to Jack, who doesn't apparently know, Trump has exceeded our carefully thought out founders plans to thwart one such as Don, the lying fckn con, and it has been pretty dam effective in its role, but Trump has broken that model(and no, not his illegal wife he first banged on the Loilita express way) for he is a lifelong criminal elected by peepholes obscured by the hundreds of millions that flooded his campaign to manipulate the vision of the facts, facts either blurred or somehow turned 180, by propaganda fkn A shady that to this day have proven that the purchase and flood of alternate fax, along with a 'right' wing flappin unSupreme quartz agenda, paved the way for the mental midget miscreant of mystery, to oil and foil the wheels of justice in a league not yet deformed to this extent B 4, cause this has been done to US and a hell of a lot more to change US for the make great purpose of the enrichmeant and deviation played out by and for the oligarchs of this formerly great nation.
As the nay sayers have proven that Johnny come lately is the porta potty rich and snotty gigantic scarlet letter touted on his sweater giant A hole in what used to be the envy of the world, butt now, the current spinnin of and buy the whirleds' biggest turd, the spinning of actual reality with his own Constitution absurd!
And this has him leaving us with the runs, as his dumb down and drown has been the opening of the immaculate misconception via his laxatives, as he has halted the constipation and released a whirled world of unnecessary shit upon this nation, that should wash their hands over such non-feeble and fecal matters, but now can't, cause the contamination of this nation has done splattered,
Splattered over so much without a flush, there is no bowl to punch, no corn and peanuts to crunch, as poll after danced around pole has shown a plan, where there is not a rescue from a little guy in a little boat, only a little guy with a 2025 plan where the Tidy Bowl Man went on vacation, asz we circle the drain because peoples were too lazy to ascertain, the true pain, that we would be exposed to by a second term for a determined in our termination present potUS plan.
Cause he is everything our forefathers would have never wanted to see, as our dumbed down society has proven,
that is what and where we be in
our country tis of he,
as we are stuck and in a shitty groove, but groovy we not be.
Wake up people and 'Christians' supported buy the bought steeple that has the slant, for a steep hill to traverse in a country that can't,
cause in our current universe, our world is spinning down the twisted sewer made grate again, buy the bought and paid for who enabled the election infection, known as this 'man' ,
with a mandate elon plan to supersede with all of the hate planted to grow,
inn the people that can't seem to know . and or say so.
, WTF this POS has done, as exercised daily are the fruits of his labor bowel and foul movement, has his and is his asz this excrement forced out and about does and will continue to implement without a doubt, his will over a party with out, the guts, who threw their hands up like nuitz, bounced off their chin, cause they have again done let the actually enemy from within, take one and all like an i from the team, as sodomized by the Gonorrhea mess of a messiah brought about to dry up the dream,
N
US All pooped out, without any Charmin to be had, for HE has put us in this shitty situation, and so many refuse to see that as bad,
yep, we've been HAD...
and i had to clean this shit off and from my chest, so i used a Stanley Steamer, unlike Trump and Cump., for they went to
Cleveland....
You guys are fucking hilarious. When ANY previous Democrat President has won the Presidency by even much larger margins Republicans are the first in line to obstruct and delay any of the incoming opposing parties President's agenda. To sit there and whine and cry about what's been going on in politics for centuries is moronic. And following the law and using their elected positions to push for their constituents wants and needs, whether that be fighting against their opponent's agenda or fighting for their own, frankly, is the very DEFINITION of democracy. So, the fucking useless morons who are trying to claim that elected Democrat representatives using their elected positions to block the President's agenda are not in ANY FUCKING WAY delaying democracy as this hilariously moronic seed claims.
If not such a serious subject, I would indeed be laughing at this premise, cause your definition did not miss, or run astray of how viewed should be the way. Hippocrazy is at its height when on their B hind legs that are unable to support the fat cache of bull spread this and every day.
It amazes me how blatant reality be, while so many choose or are just unable to see, cause it is right there in front of us all, to not see in the case for too many.
Notice how many replies from conservatives I've gotten? So far nothing but 'crickets'...
From someone who believes they are important...and I paraphrase
"I don't opine on posts that I feel are irrelevant and don't warrant being opined on".
Could it be because the clown car full of unqualified idiots that Trump put together might be "a threat to Democracy"?
Asking for a friend
When we had a functioning government headed by some of the best of the best and were leading the world post-Covid and knowing Trump had every intention of seeking revenge and sowing havoc the numbnuts in middle America who pick Presidents anymore did not believe the Democrats, "Gave them a good enough reason"...
Name them and your theory on why they are the "best of the best".
You probably still think Harris is going to win by "10 million votes".
jbb
Why were none of these best of the best nominated for the cabinet rather than the clowns Trump put forth?
Trump fired them all and replaced them with his flunkies!
all losers