With days until President-elect Donald Trump officially takes office, congressional Democrats are announcing how they are facing four years of Republican leadership in The white house.
“It’s just accepting the reality that Trump won. And just saying that he’s a chaotic guy isn’t going to get us anywhere,” Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said Semaphore in the interview. It is simply etched in people’s minds. The fact is that people want change. This means that we also have to be ready for changes.”
“There will be many opportunities for us to fight over real principles, where our argument is that it will make people’s lives more difficult and more expensive,” Welch told the news outlet. But not just because we don’t like Trump.
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With days to go until President-elect Trump officially takes office, congressional Democrats are announcing that they are facing four years of Republican leadership. (Getty Images)
Some Democrats, like Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper, are signaling that they are able to find some common ground with Republicans to advance policy goals.
“There are a million things to decide within that. So I’d be happy to try to find compromises wherever possible,” Hickenlooper told Semafor.
“It’s just accepting the reality that Trump won. And just saying that he’s a chaotic guy isn’t going to get us anywhere,” said Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt. (Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images)
But many Democrats in Congress are not so conciliatory about the greater influence of Trump and Republicans in Washington, D.C. “We saw the movie … eight years ago. It was all a surprise to us,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said is the Semaphore. “Now we know the basic game.”
“On any given day, I’m doing both things: trying to get things done and also trying to prevent bad things from happening,” Kaine said of how his job has changed since the Republican ascension to the Senate and other chambers of power.
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Other Democrats in Congress urged their party colleagues to seek ways to compromise with the incoming Trump administration. ua guest essay for The New York Times released on New Year’s Day, Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., said Democratic opposition to Trump’s agenda would be a “mistake.”
“As a Democratic member of Congress, I know my party will be tempted to stand firm against Mr. Trump at every turn: uniting against his bills, blocking his nominees, and stalling the machinery of the House and Senate. That would be a mistake,” the congressman wrote. .
Fox News’ Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
