Democrats Find a Voice in Opposition to Trump's Funding Halt.
In their first unified opposition to President Trump, Democrats across the ideological spectrum accused him of preying on the nation’s most vulnerable citizens by denying them government aid.
'Democrats offered their first show of unified opposition to President Trump on Tuesday, as elected officials across the country vowed to fight against a White House-ordered pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance.
Since Mr. Trump won the election in November, Democrats have debated how stridently to oppose the president and his administration. Some argued for the kind of wholesale defiance that characterized their response during Mr. Trump’s first term. Others, including those from places where Mr. Trump gained support in 2024, pushed to find areas of cooperation on issues like immigration and inflation.
But on Tuesday, the earliest sketches of a new playbook emerged, as Democrats across the ideological spectrum accused Mr. Trump of preying on the nation’s most vulnerable citizens by denying government aid for struggling families and the elderly and defunding police departments, transportation systems and hospitals.
“Donald Trump’s administration is lying to you,” Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon in Chicago. “What the president is trying to do is illegal.”'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/democrats-trump-funding-freeze.html
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