Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn, claims President Donald Trump and Government Efficiency Department (Doge) Actions of Elon Musk leaders represent “illegal attacks of power”, which triggers a “constitutional crisis”.
In an interview with National Public Radio, Murphy condemned the efforts of the Office for the Management and Budget of the White House for Freezing Financing Has already approved by Congress, as well as Trump administration that moves to inspection, restructuring and potential abolition of parts International Development Agency of United States (USAID)As thousands of federal employees face release, and US programs financed by taxpayers are suspended around the world.
Murphy said that Democrats should not support “one candidate” who appointed Trump and “should not assign accelerated proceedings to any candidates until that crisis passes.”
“I worry that the US public will not increase against this seizure of power if they see Democrats who regularly cooperate with the Republicans on the Senate floor to bring legislation or support candidates,” Murphy said. “This is an important thing that has to happen here. The people of this country need to start showing up. And we saw that this was happening this weekend. I saw the city councilwoman for my colleagues packed on gills. We made a press conference outside Outside USAIDs yesterday – and who had to have 500 people on that.
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Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn, speaks after lunch of democratic policies in the US Capitol building on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Senator said his Republican colleagues should also feel the pressure to speak against the administration.
“The focus must currently be on Republicans and why they were completely and extremely silenced,” Murphy said. “I do not want all the pressure to be on democrats to understand when the Republicans should care for the same about democracy as Democrats.”
“The President of the United States does not have the power to suspend all federal programs unilaterally,” Murphy said. “He certainly does not have the power to suspend these programs, and then decide for themselves what the subjects get money, who do not. The president does not have the power to do it because it is an extraordinary power to invest in one person. The president could use that power to send money to his friends, to send money only to the Republican states, not the democratic state. ”
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President Donald Trump, accompanied by the US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, asks a journalist’s question during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the oval office of February 4, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Murphy also accused Trump of violating court orders, refusing to be spent on his return. As far as USAIDs are concerned, Senator said Trump “went far to close the entire agency, release 60% of people in many voters, telling employees yesterday that none of them should appear to work.”
“That’s unconstitutional,” Senator said, guessing that Trump “may have speculated” that the Supreme Court will now give him the authority to close the agencies.
Elon Musk runs the Government Efficiency Department. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“I don’t think we should just let the hyperbole sit on the side because when people hear the president of the United States as they say There is corruption in USAID. When they hear Elona male, saying it is a criminal company, and they do not reluctantly rely or democrats, they believe it. I mean, it’s just a direct lie, “Murphy said.” Thus, the president and his advisers of the billionaire literally invent things from the air, because they want to take control of the consumption of the Federal Government so they can reward their friends and Elona men’s friends and punish their enemies to suppress political disagreement and destroy democracy in this country. Because of this, this is a constitutional crisis. ”
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“Currently, our biggest priority is to ensure that democracy survives this attack on the Constitution,” Murphy said. “I can only speak for myself. I can’t tell you what every single Democrat is ready to do. I will not vote for more nominees. We also strongly implement court actions to try to extinguish many of them illegal attacks of power. From these nominations and legislations in the end do not need .
