With days to go before President-elect Donald Trump officially takes office, Democrats in Congress are announcing how they will come to terms with four years of Republican leadership in government. White House.
“It’s just accepting the reality that Trump won. And if we just say he’s a chaotic guy, nothing gets done,” said Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said Semafor in an interview. That’s just ingrained in people’s consciousness. The fact is that people want change. So that means that we also have to be willing to change.”
“There will be plenty of opportunities for us to fight on issues of real principle, where our argument is that this will make life harder and more expensive for people,” Welch told the newspaper. “But not just because we don’t like Trump.”
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With days to go before President-elect Trump officially takes office, Democrats in Congress are announcing how they will come to terms with four years of Republican leadership. (Getty Images)
Some Democrats, such as Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado, indicate they may be able to find some common ground with Republicans to advance policy goals.
“There are a million things that need to be decided within that. So I would like to try to find compromises where possible,” Hickenlooper told Semafor.
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“It’s just accepting the reality that Trump won. And if we just say he’s a chaotic guy, nothing gets done,” said Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt. (Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images)
But many congressional Democrats are not so conciliatory about Trump and Republicans’ increased influence in Washington, DC. “We saw the movie … eight years ago. It was all a surprise to us,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told Semafor. “Now we know the basic script.”
“On any given day, I’m doing both things: trying to get things through, and also trying to prevent bad things from happening,” Kaine said of how his job has changed following the rise of Republicans to the Senate and other halls of the House. stands. current.
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Other Democrats in Congress have called on fellow members of their party to look for ways to compromise with the incoming Trump administration. In one guest essay for The New York Times published on New Year’s Day, Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., said Democrats’ knee-jerk opposition to the Trump agenda would be a “mistake.”
“As a Democratic member of Congress, I know that my party will be tempted to stick with Mr. Trump at any time: unite against his bills, block his nominees, and drive the machinery of the House of Representatives and the Senate to bring to a standstill. be a mistake,” the congressman wrote.
Fox News’ Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
