Democrats Confront Limits Of Their Power In Bid To Stop Trump And Musk
Outraged Democrats are testing the limits of their diminished power as they try to stop the stunning power grabs of President Donald Trump and his chief lieutenant, Elon Musk.
The tech billionaire's maneuvers, which include the hostile seizure of taxpayer data and the apparent closure of the government's leading international humanitarian aid agency , have riled many Democrats, who have been mired in a post-election funk and struggled to identify a cohesive strategy in the earliest days of Trump's presidency.
Democratic members of Congress threatened to try to bring Trump's agenda, including his Cabinet nominations, to a grinding halt. Operatives assembled a new war room in their party headquarters. And Democratic protesters, backed by a sudden influx of elected officials, warned of a looming constitutional crisis at ballooning rallies across the nation's capital.
"With one voice, we can push back and resist the excesses and extremes of the Trump administration," newly elected Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin said in an interview. "Only two weeks in, Elon Musk is already our worst president ever."
It's unclear, however, if such attempts at obstruction would realistically stop Trump and Musk.