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Democrats have been powerless because they have seen President Donald Trump organizing federal agencies and the limits of his position moving forward with little concern about the result.
But they have a complex piece of leverage: to stop the March 14 deadline of government shutdown.
According to a conversation with more than two dozen members and senior assistants, the House and the Senate Democrats at the highest level are now in a tough debate about what to demand in their first major conversation with Trump and more than two dozen members and senior. According to the discussion with the assistants.
Trump and GOP leaders will need democratic support in the Senate, where 60 votes will be needed to advance the bill. In the House, they will have to fight the conservative troops, which are unlikely to vote for any expense bill. Although Rank and File Democrats are desperate to play hardball with Trump, other senior Democrats are not sure they are afraid of what extent they will attract a line, with this fear That they may be forced to be imprisoned in a funding dispute and eventually look even weak.
House Democratic leader Hakim Jeffrez and his Senate counterpart, Chuck Shamar, are talking about how to use Trump to use the deadline for funding. But some top Democrats fear that even if they receive policy privileges, Trump will only ignore the law-as he believes he is in some of his initial attacks on federal agencies. Not
“If the main role of the Congress is the power of the purse, why would we re -believe them again on a customization agreement?” Democrats from the Delaware said. “It will be difficult for us to work together because it is difficult for us to trust each other.”
And as a senior assistant described this situation: “Democrats do not have many good powers.”
Many disappointing Democrats, even some people in the districts of some fighters, insist that if the Republicans themselves cannot vote, the shutdown should not be off the table. But Shamar and other governing -minded senators are moving forward more cautiously, cautious to incite a harmful shutdown and take part in the charges.
In fact, even when Jeffrez and Shamar have intensified their attacks on the role of Elon Musk in Trump’s government, it is not certain that when it comes time to discuss the funding deal, they tech billionaires. Whether or not the leaves will be raised.
In an interview last week, Jeffrez indicated that the pressure of the legislature to stop the Democrats’ government’s payment system was not one of their demands in the funding fight at the moment.
“There are bilateral talks here that are still underway that efforts are still being made to try to reach the expense of the American people’s needs,” Jeffrez told CNN. “I have encouraged these bilateral conversations to continue.”
But other Democrats say that any democratic votes should be standing.
“We do not guarantee it,” Massachusetts ‘representative Jim McGuran added, “Massachusetts’ representative Jim McGuverin, who is one of the growing groups of Democrats who is ready to stare Trump in the shutdown battle. “We are not a cheap history.”
Across the capital, Democrat, a connective Democrat, San Richard Bloonthl, emphasized that the party “needs to use every point we need” and that democracy itself is at stake. But he also acknowledged the dangers of fighting very hard and shutting down: “No one wants to close, but we have to take advantage of.”
Another veteran of Congress spending battles, Sen Mark Warner, who represents a large part of federal workers in Virginia, said the party “protection of the rule of law” and preventing the end of Trump’s government Need to fight. “But who knows,” he said with heart, “It can be destroyed all the time [the deadline] Comes about. “
Trump’s decline in Washington programs – especially for the US Agency for International Development – has put Democrats into a fitness. Although the party supports the agency’s mission globally and believes that it has believed the Musk’s efforts to abolish federal law, some are desperate to make foreign aid focus on a governmental warfare center –
Democratic rap hemes said, “It’s just as tragic as USAID and abroad have happened with our efforts, I’m not sure it kills many Americans emotionally.” Certainly not out of the beltway. ”
It will be difficult to avoid shutdown. Just a month before the deadline, the top house and the Senate customers are divided on a basic agreement on how much the Congress should spend in the financial year, which is already on the half -way.
House Speaker Mike Johnson accused Democrats on Friday that he was “trying to establish some kind of official closure” and said his negotiators withdrew from talks in recent times. Yes.
But the Democrats dispute its characteristics. He says the biggest problem is that Republican spending levels in the House and the Senate are differences.
“We want to make sure that once we come to an agreement, it is out of the window after an illegal Trump-Alion administration transferred it to the law,” said Washington’s Sen Petty Murray Can’t throw away things that are currently running. ” State, Senate Specialized Committee’s High Democrat.
Other controversial issues, such as the California Wild Fire Aid and the increase in the national debt range, can be included in the spending bill, which the final result of the fight is unexpected.
“The Republican we need. So if they want to have a meaningful conversation, they know where we have to find, “said Pete Egular, a California Democrat and Leader of the Leader.
Some are pressing for some fighting from the left.
“If the Senate Democrats do not need to do the necessary work at that moment, I am sure the house will do the Democrats.” Asked if the confrontation could lead to the closure of the confrontation, he insisted that his party would not be blamed and the cost of democratic votes should be “very high”.
Jeffrez and his team are keeping close tabs on their very weak members, many of whom represent the districts of Trump. According to several people familiar with the debate, minority leaders argued with a group of battlefield members on Thursday.
“I don’t think that when their government is closed, people like, and I don’t think the average person looks so closely at the debate that they know whose fault it is.” The battlefield seat where Trump also won.
Since the Democrats try to lessen from their 2024 losses, how difficult they have to retreat against Trump – and how many times -.
For example, Texas’ reaped. El Green went to the floor on Wednesday to introduce anti -Trump articles. House Democrats forced Johnson’s office to go to Johnson’s office, forcing two other Democrats to discuss Musk’s access to the department’s payment system. A day later, the Democratic Repert Gerard Huffman protested against the GOP national prayer breakfast in the capital, which he described as a symbol of the mega “dustopian dictatorial agenda”.
In private meetings, Jeffrez has asked the members to choose their favorite baseball player as Aaron Judge, and not “swing on every pitch”. But in the zone of politics of politics, not all Democrats agree.
“I think there is no problem in raising the alarm in the Democrats every single day. I do not believe the theory that we should sit in the bushes and wait for a moment below the line when something really gets worse. They are just bad, “said Connecticut’s Sen Chris Murphy.” We will need to be higher in the coming days. ”
CNN’s Allisonman cooperated in this report.
