Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate, has reportedly been criticised by some of the party’s state governors for not resisting Donald Trump’s agenda and cabinet nominees strongly enough. The exchange took place in a conference between Schumer and six Democratic governors that laid bare differences within the party over how to counteract a seemingly rampant Trump as he wreaks upheaval across the political landscape with an avalanche of executive orders, the New York Times reported. The governors, led by JB Pritzker of Illinois and Maura Healey of Massachusetts, pleaded with Schumer to slow down the confirmation of Trump’s cabinet by persuading fellow senators to vote against his nominees wherever possible. They said the party needed to generate more public opposition than senators had managed in the chamber so far. The appeal came in the week the Senate is meeting to confirm two of Trump’s most contentious cabinet picks, Robert F Kennedy Jr, as health and human services secretary, and Tulsi Gabbard, for the role of national intelligence director. In response, Schumer said Democrats had damaged the political standing of the new defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, during his hearings, in which he was narrowly confirmed, and of Kennedy in the opening day of his confirmation hearing on Wednesday. The conference call followed a controversial memo from the office of management and budget ordering a “pause” on trillions of dollars of federal funds used for vital spending programmes. The order was rescinded on Wednesday following a fierce backlash that led to a court ruling stalling it. After the meeting, Schumer’s office issued a statement saying the memo’s reversal was “thanks to Democrats’ work”. Andy Beshear, the Kentucky governor, reportedly told the meeting that Democrats needed to focus less on Trump’s “desecration” of American democracy in favour of a message that his administration was making life harder for ordinary Americans, which was the only way they would learn never to vote for someone like him again. Trump appeared more animated by the prospect of acquiring Greenland than on tackling the high prices of eggs and other groceries, which he promised to bring down on “day one” during his presidential campaign, Beshear reportedly said. In fact, Schumer addressed the rising egg prices and the effects of bird flu and challenged Trump to act in a Senate floor speech on Monday. Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor who was running mate of the defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in last November’s election, said the party needed a higher television profile to project its governing alternative, rather than simply complaining about Trump’s actions. The Kansas governor, Laura Kelly, called for a “down and dirty” digital strategy to cope with the social media outreach of Trump and his supporters. Schumer responded by praising the work of Cory Booker, the New Jersey senator who is charge of Senate Democrats’ social media strategy. Healey also lamented that the state governors were bearing the brunt of constituents’ complaints about the effect of Trump’s policies and leading the Democrats’ pushback – as reflected in the cases filed by state attorneys general against the attempt to cancel birthright citizenship and the freeze on federal grants and loans. the sooner these old losers get purged from the party, the better Chuck Schumer doesn’t even have a smart phone, he still uses a flip phone Dems really elected some 70 y/o with throat cancer as head of the Oversight Committee get these old, out of touch, weak MFers outta here already
I really dont care, the fraud and mismanagemt has to stop. If they have to throw the baby out with the bath water then I'm good with this because the bureaucracy has the blood on their hands. The slush fund stops today.
You'll get to keep your doctor just like Obama said. The fact that you guys are against a forensic accounting of the waste/fraud in the federal govt says all that needs to be said.
where is the fraud? Can anyone supply evidence? Or are we just going off what president musk says on X?
Because the USAID is corrupt and they're going to move the part that isn't corrupt. In short they're going to cut off the slush fund and keep helping people in need.
I'm going off of past things, long before Trump even ran for office. Have you ever heard of the 5,000 dollar hammer. Bottom line is this is a case of who do you trust. The Russia/Russia/Russia people who've lied to you in the past. Or Trump/Musk, Libs panties are in a wad because he's doing to the federal govt what he did when he bought twitter. He's cutting the fat.
please elaborate how congressionally appropriated funds have been frivolously used or fraudulently used. Somehow USAID has become a beacon for this mythical slush fund.
It baffles my mind that someone can assume most of the CIA and FBI are corrupt, without thousands of examples of corruption and names, yet believe the lies out of Trump's mouth over and over and over and over again. Now that's crazy.
The NIH and the research institutes sign contracts wrt the financial particulars. The Trump Admin is breaking those contracts. This is likely heading to the courts to see if government signed contracts are meaningless or not.
Do you think Russia is our friend and isn't doing dirty things? I mean, it's pretty well known that Russia is funding right wing groups in the US. It makes sense that the right wants to hide that.
Even funnier is that we know how much Trump loves helping people in need. He's the champion of the poor, sick, and needy, right? Hahahaha *Disclaimer He helps those who have something to give him in return. A little quid pro quo for the Trump empire makes him happiest.
Nope, I want an accounting of all of the money and where it went, then I along with the rest of society can judge whether there was waste/fraud. Of course you wont ever admit that there's waste or fraud because Orange Man Bad and Elon is Hitler, they're all liars etc...
Elon knows all about fraud https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...ecret-company-funded-glass-house-report-says/ as for wasteful govt spending... lhe boring company. is there an individual who lives off govt subsidies more than musk?
There already is accounting of it, ITS PUBLIC DATA. Like you have no idea the amount of damage they are doing. They are cutting things and lying about why they are doing them. And you just believe WHATEVER they tell you and they know you will because you believe they can do no wrong.
