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Donald Trump’s decision to take a break of billions of dollars in federal subsidies and loans awaited generalized democratic resistance to the second mandate of the new president who was felt on Tuesday on Capitol Hill, in the offices of the governors and in the race to the maintenance of the National Party Committee.
A federal judge Tuesday blocked Part of the order of Monday evening of the White House budget office to freeze federal aid – but only with a temporary order in place until February 3.
The scope of the administration ordinance created immediate confusion and the administration of Trump spent the day trying to buffer fears that temporary frost applies to public services programs such as MedicaidEven if the federal financing portals of the States ceased to operate on Tuesday. (They started to regain access to the system in the afternoon.)
But the decision of the Trump budget office on a spark under the Democratic authorities in a way that other movements of his first week in power had not, even led some Democrats to change the way they voted on the candidates of the president’s office.
The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, who sought to position himself as a progressive firewall against Trump in his blue state and is widely considered as one of a long list of democrats who could seek the presidency in 2028 , have questioned the doubt about the MEDICAIDE failure which is an accessory, and said that the federal agencies had canceled the scheduled meetings this week with state representatives. He told journalists on Tuesday that the Trump administration “you are lying” or is “incompetent in a critical way”.
“What the president tries to do is illegal,” said Pritzker, promising to fight the White House in court. “The Trump administration is trying to confuse the American people. This is why it is so important that we clearly speak. »»
The democratic decline comes as party leaders and legislators are looking for answers on how to take Trump while his second administration tries to implement a change of government in the government through executive actions and Capitol Hill, where the Republicans control both the room and the Senate.
The head of the House minority, Hakeem Jeffries, told colleagues on Tuesday in a letter that they huddled on Wednesday for an “emergency meeting” in response to Trump’s decision.
He said that the party “will discuss a three-component counter-offensive” which includes the development of policies and legal decline and communications.
“Millions of Americans will be injured,” said New York Democrat about Trump’s decision. “By necessity, we will fight against extreme funding freeze with an energetic response on all fronts.”
Oregon senator Jeff Merkley, the largest democrat of the Senate budget committee, and other members of the Democratic Committee sought to delay the taking into account of Russell Vought, the choice of Trump for the Director of the Bureau management and budget.
In a letter to President Lindsey Graham, the Democrats wrote that “members of the Stonewalled Congress”, but “already planned to put programs that feed hungry children, heat the houses of low -income families, argued the farmers and relieved People with natural disasters. »»
They asked for a two -week break on the committee vote to advance the appointment of Vought, currently scheduled for Thursday.
“It is simply unacceptable that the budget committee can vote to confirm that Mr. Vought is director of the management and budget office without obtaining real answers on his part on his current efforts to thwart the will of the Congress,” Written Democrats in Graham, a Republican from South Carolina.
Democrats also used another Trump candidate to express their opposition. Transport Secretary Sean Duffy, a former member of the Wisconsin Congress and an uncontrollable choice which had previously advanced 97-0 during a procedural vote, was confirmed by the Senate during a vote of 77-22 on Tuesday. But these 22 votes against Duffy protest against Trump’s frost on subsidies and federal loans, said Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
Delaware senator, Chris Coons, said in a statement that he had voted against Duffy due to “the disastrous and illegal order of Trump last night to freeze all the federal aid, including millions for these very investments on transport ”.
And in the race for the presidency of the National Democratic Committee, a competitor, the former governor of Maryland, Martin O’malley, seized the freeze of Trump’s financing.
“More than ever, the Democratic Party needs a leader who is ready to fight back and fight for people who work hard in our economy,” he told DNC members.
And other governors, such as Pritzker, have sworn an action. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement that she and the public prosecutor of the Letitia James were working on legal action aimed at protecting the financing of health care, the application of laws, infrastructure and more. She also called the Republican members of the Delegation of the New York Congress to “intensify and use their influence to protect our state, our people and our federal funding”.
Some Democrats saw the first party movements to repel Trump’s financing as insufficient.
The indivisible co-executive director Ezra Levin said that Jeffries was going too slowly and that he should have gathered the Democrats of the Congress to discuss a strategy on Monday evening.
“Tomorrow is too late. By tomorrow, the next crisis initiated by Trump will be at our door, “said Levin in a statement. “It is pathetic, unwavering and discouraging for the people who were organizing themselves throughout the country to limit the damage and defeat Maga. Jeffries must put her head in the game. ”
Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina State legislator and CNN political commentator, said that “Democrats have apparently been flat”.
“The Democrats of the House have a meeting tomorrow on something that is urgent today,” he said. The sellers also criticized the Democrats of the Congress for making Senate Chief Chuck Schumer, who held a press conference criticizing Trump on Tuesday, the face of their response.
“We don’t need to hear Chuck Schumer. We must hear people who are really affected. And it is just a professional fault that the Democrats suck so badly that we allow Donald Trump and Stephen Miller to run what our government looks like, “said Sellers, referring to the Deputy Chief of the White House for politics .
Pat Dennis, the president of American Bridge 21st century, the great Democratic Super Pac whose donors gather in Palm Beach, Florida, this weekend, said that the trump funding “goes directly to the heart of some The most vulnerable Republicans “and could be a powerful number halfway up next year.
Senator of Maine Susan Collins, one of the republican operators of the ballot in 2026, “is up there by saying that she is” concerned “of the frost of Trump. (Dennis was making fun of the previous use of collins of the word to fight against the controversies that Trump ignited; asked questions about Trump’s frost, she told journalists on Tuesday that she was “surprised by her extent”) ))
“That’s all she can do,” said Dennis. “She directs the credit committee and the president decided that credits are no longer laws.”
“Trump wants to flood everyone with too much information and deal with the hopes that people undress,” said Dennis. “Our work consists in distilling this information in: Here is what is injured. This is why it is important. Here is what we are going to do about it.
CNN Fredreka Schouten contributed to this report.