Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., rang in the new year with a guest essay in the New York Times urging fellow Democratic lawmakers to drop the resistance movement and work with President-elect Donald Trump in his second term.
In his piecethe congressman admitted that the results of the 2024 election show that voters want the Democratic Party to compromise on key issues, such as the economy and immigration, instead of opposing Trump’s agenda as they did during his first term did.
“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,” he stated.
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Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y. urged his party to forge a new path and compromise with newly elected President Donald Trump, rather than opposing his agenda. (Craig Ruttle-Pool/Getty Images)
Suozzi, who was chosen to New York’s 3rd Congressional District earlier this year after it was vacated by former Republican Rep. George Santos, admitted he is wary of Trump’s willingness to compromise with Democratic lawmakers, citing the behavior of the former president after the election.
“I am not a dupe: some of Mr. Trump’s actions provide little assurance that he is willing to embrace the bipartisanship and make compromises essential to a functioning democracy,” he said, pointing to the new president’s “radical Cabinet choices” , his demands for the recent government spending bill, and his “hubris” in bringing businessmen and consultants Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy around Capitol Hill.
Suozzi advised that Trump should “embrace his inner dealmaker and negotiate with the other party that just controls half the seats on Capitol Hill and key governorships across the country,” adding that if Trump does, “the Democrats have to meet him. halfway instead of being the Party of No.”
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The lawmaker then denounced his party’s “significant shift to the left” and said both sides of the aisle want to work together. “But as a common-sense Democrat who won in a district that Mr. Trump also won, I am confident that our closely divided electorate would prefer bipartisan solutions to political gridlock.”
He acknowledged the idea was Trump’s winning was a “mandate” of the American people, but clarified that this was not a “one-party government.”
“But as I see it, the results of the 2024 campaign were a mandate for border security, immigration reform, low inflation, economic stability and common ground for culture war fights,” he argued.
He continued by giving examples of what democratic compromises could look like, starting with climate change. He said, “Democrats cannot abandon our zeal to fight climate change. At the same time, let’s balance our commitment to environmental protection with pragmatic measures that secure affordable energy bills and controllable costs at the pump.”
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President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump arrive at his Mar-A-Lago Club on New Year’s Eve on December 31, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)
“Let us move beyond brutal attacks on widely held religious values while ensuring that the rights, safety and dignity of all are respected,” Suozzi said, conceding that liberals should “embrace efforts to make government more efficient and effective to make’, as long as they still defend “strengthening Social Security, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act”.
Suozzi said his New Year’s resolution was to rise above partisanship and argument while embracing “common sense.”
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