Pelosi, House Democrats at Issues Conference: #FightingForAll Americans & Against Trump's Reckless Schemes
At today's Issues Conference in Baltimore, Leader Pelosi and House Democrats not only demonstrated our unity, but underscored our sacred commitment: we will continue #FightingForAll Americans – and we will fight the Republicans' and President Trump's reckless, rash and incompetent agenda.
From the Washington Times:
House Democrats vowed Wednesday to fight back against President Trump "with every fiber of our being" and warned the Republican's actions do not bode well for bipartisanship on Capitol Hill.
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"As long as the president continues down this path, there is nothing Democrats can work with him on," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at the opening of a three-day "Fighting for All" issues conference, which Democrats hope will provide them with a chance to come together and chart a path forward.
"To protect the security of our nation, the future of of working families and the sanctity of our Constitution, Democrats will fight this administration everyday with every fiber of our being," said Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat.
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Rep. Joseph Crowley, chairman of the House Democratic caucus, said Democrats will not let up in pushing back against Mr. Trump's travel ban, his Cabinet picks and his push to repeal Obamacare without having a replacement ready.
"Won't this fight getting tiring? People may ask that. Will we weaken? People may ask that. We have resolve, and the answer is absolutely not," Mr. Crowley said. "I have never seen my party more unified in a single goal: fighting to prevent President Trump and congressional Republicans from hurting our country and hurting our people and, quite frankly, hurting the world."
From the Washington Post:
House Democrats kicked off a three-day policy retreat on Wednesday by presenting themselves...as champions for the majority of voters who did not vote for President Trump.
"President Trump is exactly who we thought he is: incompetent and in some cases, in terms of our national security, dangerous," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. "As long as that president continues down this path, there is nothing Democrats can work with him on."
From the Huffington Post:
Pelosi said that Trump and his administration shared "characteristics of an authoritarian regime," citing the president's appetite for secrecy and repeated attacks against friends and foes alike.
"He doesn't want people tweeting from their agency of government," Pelosi added. "They want to shut down the inspectors general. He doesn't want to protect whistleblowers, he's discrediting the press, as you know. ...The list goes on and on."
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Few things exemplify Trump's penchant for secrecy more than his refusal to release his tax returns. He still hasn't released his, as every major party presidential candidate has done in the last 40 years. The information could shed light on Trump's debts, charitable givings and business holdings abroad. The latter may also reveal whether the president has any significant conflicts of interest with countries like Russia.
From the Associated Press:
...House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats took pains Wednesday to make it clear that they will do everything they can to stand up to Trump.
"As long as the president continues down this path, there is nothing Democrats can work with him on," Pelosi said at a news conference, sharpening her words from the early days of Trump's administration, when she repeatedly said they would look for common ground where they could find it.
"Fighting, love that word," she said at the opening of the Democrats' annual retreat.
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Less than three weeks into Trump's presidency, New York Rep. Joe Crowley, the chairman of the Democratic conference, said he has never seen his party so unified in a single goal: to fight Trump and congressional Republicans.
"The fight before us though is a difficult one, the list is long," Crowley said. "These are the fights that will define generations to come and quite frankly determine the fate of our country."
Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, piled on. "No one in America ought to think that this party is in retreat," Hoyer said, noting that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won nearly 2.9 million more votes than Trump.
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California Rep. Linda Sanchez, the vice chair of the Democratic conference, called the retreat "kicking a little ass for the working class."
From the Huffington Post:
...House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said House Democrats will continually point to the differences between their policy positions and Trump's.
For example, she wondered why it was taking the president so long to unveil his proposals on infrastructure, the budget and tax giveaways ? and his personal tax returns. Highlighting the party's opposition to Trump, Pelosi took particular aim at his recent comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as his executive order limiting immigration and blocking Syrian refugees.
"As long as the president continues down this path, there is nothing Democrats can work with him on," she said. "Democrats will fight this administration every day with every fiber of our being."
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Crowley tried on Tuesday to pressure Republicans to vote on a resolution criticizing the White House's Holocaust remembrance statement for not specifically mentioning the 6 million Jews who were killed. Republicans rejected the vote.
"We want our Republican colleagues to understand that what the White House does, they either have to answer for or they have to condemn," Crowley said Wednesday. "It's not just about the White House, it's also about our Republican colleagues."
Pelosi added that Democrats also plan to lend their voice to debates raging in the Senate. A number of House Democrats, including Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), won't travel to Baltimore until later Wednesday in order to be in the upper chamber when it votes on the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) for attorney general.
"We will have our presence, our voices, and the thoughts and wishes of the American people present in the Senate chamber tonight," Pelosi said.
From POLITICO:
One after another, Democratic leaders, clad in their best retreat chic, hammered home that simple idea in their opening press conference. The main message: Republicans created the president and they will have to answer for every single controversy he creates over the next four years.
"It's not just about the contrast between Democrats and Donald Trump," Pelosi told reporters. "It's about the Republicans in the Congress. There's hardly anything that Donald Trump has said that the Republicans haven't said sooner and for longer periods of time, in the worst way."
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In a little more than two weeks Trump has turned the world upside down with a chaotically-implemented ban on refugees, kept up daily name-calling attacks on Twitter, and breathed new life into debunked claims of millions voting fraudulently.
House Democrats are betting voters won't be able to stomach four years of Trump if his chaotic reign continues and will be looking for someone to blame in 2018 when Trump's name isn't on the ballot.
From USA Today:
Don't count out House Democrats when it comes to fighting President Trump's agenda in Congress. That's the message from Democrats gathered at a retreat in Baltimore this week.
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The minority party doesn't have the power to slow down legislation in the House as it does in the Senate. But House Democrats say they, too, have tools to fight a Republican Congress and an administration they say is dangerous.
"The American people are getting the message," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California. "We have to make sure they know, though, on a day-to-day basis how this affects them in their daily lives."