Posted on 02/06/2025 9:23:26 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Powerless to stop President Trump or Russell T. Vought, the nominee to lead the White House budget office, Democrats pulled an all-nighter to show their opposition.
There was no nursery rhyme reciting nor phone book reading. No cots wheeled out for senators to catch naps in between speechifying.
But one by one on Wednesday night and into Thursday, Senate Democrats flocked to the floor for an all-night talkathon to protest the confirmation of Russell T. Vought, President Trump’s nominee to lead the White House budget office and an architect of his ultraconservative Project 2025 policy agenda.
Several senators swigged caffeinated beverages. One arrived straight from a black-tie banquet. The eyes were bleary but the outrage was fierce as Democrats took turns railing against Mr. Vought, who has orchestrated many of Trump’s moves to go around Congress to dismantle and defund the federal government.
They had no hope of stopping Mr. Vought. Consigned to the minority, Democrats lacked the votes to block him or any other Trump nominee so long as Republicans continued to largely hold together in support. Still, the all-nighter was a chance for members of a party that is under intense pressure from its base to push back more strongly against Mr. Trump to at least try to show they were trying.
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The Senate Dems are 80+ years old. They are sundowning like Sleepy Joe by 3 or 4 PM. I doubt they are “holding” anything all night.
OMB and so are all his appointees so there! 😭. 😂😂😂🖕
there. fixed it.
Can You Say “Thank You, Harry Reid!”......................
I’m not so sure you fixed it. The ‘Rat base probably is upset. The ‘Rat leadership has grabbed the money and left the building.
Im sure Harry Reid is delighted....and smiling up at us from Hell right now.
meanwhile Trump is continuing to cut off a liberals source of funding from rogue US agencies.
Not one Dem or Dem organ will stop quoting “Project 2025” nor will they actually read Agenda 47.
Dead party whimpering.
>> The eyes were bleary but the outrage was fierce
ROFLMAO at that line.
I hope they brought their diapers.
they were sending fundraising emails
i have never heard a dem quote from project 2025
they just say it like it is a slur
Vought could not get a better endorsement.
That little kid is hilarious.
Can you say *Insurrection*?
I’ve held the floor plenty of times.
Smack dab right on it with my face after about half a bottle of JD.
Eventually one wakes up :)
Let them hold their breath until they turn blue, as surely it will get some of them reelected.....no one will remember what happened the fist two weeks of the Trump Presidency during the next set of Senate elections for 1/3 rd of the membership.
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