Senator Andy Kim, DN.J., said on Sunday that it was open to working with other democrats to refuse Republicans the votes necessary to maintain the funded government before a key deadline next month if the Trump administration continues to remedy federal agencies and programs.
“In a few weeks, the Republicans will try to understand how they are advancing, and they have, in the past two years, need democratic votes for each continuous resolution, and they should not count this time”, “Kim declared In an interview on “Meet the Press” by NBC News.
Kim added that he prefers to work against the Republicans in this way if the Trump administration continues to avoid government agencies like the U.S. International Development Agency and the Department of Education The way he did it in the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s mandate.
“They just try to dismantle the government,” Kim told “Meet the Press” the moderator Kristen Welker. “So yes, look, if we have to take measures to be able to keep them responsible, use the lever effect that we must force it, I cannot support efforts that will continue this anarchy that we see with regard to this administration Proceedings. “
Kim added that working together to finance the government “only for them to overthrow it, to dismantle the government is not something that should be authorized”.
Kim is not the first Democratic senator to raise such concerns before the deadline for financing March 14.
Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., The vice-president of the Senate credit committee, told NBC News in a press release Last week, it is difficult to negotiate with the Republicans on a budget when the White House reduces the funding allocated to agencies approved during the previous budget cycle.
“Democrats and Republicans must be able to believe that when an agreement is signed, it will be followed,” she said.
Kim stressed that if the Democrats were deposited with the Republicans on the financing of the government and that the federal government stops, the GOP should be to blame.
“This is to know whether or not they can get the votes. They are the majority, and if they cannot govern this, you know that it is the American people, “said Kim.
Already, the basic democrats have sought their party leaders to do more to repel the Trump administration, although it is not clear if the vote against the Republicans and the government closure will achieve this objective.
During a demonstration against Trump in front of the Capitol building last week when several Democrats in the Senate and the Chamber rallied alongside the demonstrators, The rallys at some point have sang“Do yourself work!” Do your job!
“We are at a point where we are essentially on the tip of a constitutional crisis, seeing this administration take so clearly illegal measures, and until helping this,” Kim said on Sunday.