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MSNBC: Trump is carrying out Project 2025. Here's how we Democrats are fighting back.
MSNBC - Trump is carrying out Project 2025. Here’s how we Democrats are fighting back.
We cannot let these attacks on our democracy go unchallenged.
Feb. 6, 2025, 6:00 AM EST
By Rep. Gerald Connolly, representative for Virginia's 11th congressional district
Donald Trump spent much of the campaign season running away from Project 2025. In disavowal after disavowal, he lied to the American public about his support for the deeply unpopular agenda. Now, Project 2025 is no longer a policy document from which Republicans can run away. It has served as Trump’s playbook for his first weeks in the Oval Office.
An illegal attempt to remove independent watchdogs from across the federal government in the dead of night. The unlawful freezing of all foreign aid and domestic federal assistance in direct contradiction of the laws passed by Congress. Hostile takeovers of agencies across the federal government. A purge of experts and career civil servants from the federal workforce so they can be replaced with partisan hacks and loyalists who will carry out the president’s most nefarious whims, no questions asked.
This is a shock and awe playbook. Trump and his acolytes are flooding the zone with one outrageous plan after another in the hopes we will balk at the sheer size and scope of their efforts. But we will not relent now. This is the time for all of us who have chosen federal service to fight back. We cannot let these attacks on our democracy go unchallenged.
Immediately following Trump’s attempted purge of inspectors general, the top Democrats on every committee in the House joined together to rebuke the president’s illegal move and demand that he comply with the law. Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin and I are demanding answers from the Justice Department on the improper removal or reassignment of dozens of career officials. I joined a dozen of my colleagues outside USAID headquarters Monday to fight back against Trump and Elon Musk’s outrageous assault on the agency. I have filed bipartisan legislation to reverse the president’s attempt to politicize the civil service and replace thousands of experts with his own cronies.
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We cannot let these attacks on our democracy go unchallenged.
Feb. 6, 2025, 6:00 AM EST
By Rep. Gerald Connolly, representative for Virginia's 11th congressional district
Donald Trump spent much of the campaign season running away from Project 2025. In disavowal after disavowal, he lied to the American public about his support for the deeply unpopular agenda. Now, Project 2025 is no longer a policy document from which Republicans can run away. It has served as Trump’s playbook for his first weeks in the Oval Office.
An illegal attempt to remove independent watchdogs from across the federal government in the dead of night. The unlawful freezing of all foreign aid and domestic federal assistance in direct contradiction of the laws passed by Congress. Hostile takeovers of agencies across the federal government. A purge of experts and career civil servants from the federal workforce so they can be replaced with partisan hacks and loyalists who will carry out the president’s most nefarious whims, no questions asked.
This is a shock and awe playbook. Trump and his acolytes are flooding the zone with one outrageous plan after another in the hopes we will balk at the sheer size and scope of their efforts. But we will not relent now. This is the time for all of us who have chosen federal service to fight back. We cannot let these attacks on our democracy go unchallenged.
Immediately following Trump’s attempted purge of inspectors general, the top Democrats on every committee in the House joined together to rebuke the president’s illegal move and demand that he comply with the law. Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin and I are demanding answers from the Justice Department on the improper removal or reassignment of dozens of career officials. I joined a dozen of my colleagues outside USAID headquarters Monday to fight back against Trump and Elon Musk’s outrageous assault on the agency. I have filed bipartisan legislation to reverse the president’s attempt to politicize the civil service and replace thousands of experts with his own cronies.
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