Dem Senator Says They're Prepared To Do 'Whatever It Takes' Against Trump [View all]

Source: MEDIAite

Nov 16th, 2024, 7:25 pm


California Democrat Sen. Alex Padilla on Saturday told MSNBC host Al Sharpton that Congressional Democrats are prepared to do “whatever it takes” in response to nominations and appointments made by president-elect Donald Trump for members of his cabinet in the next administration.

On the latest PoliticsNation on MSNBC, Sharpton opened the show on the topic of Trump’s appointments and nominations, saying that it “now appears” the next Trump administration will be “more radical, vindictive, and dangerous than anyone could have guessed.” He brought up Saturday’s nomination of energy company CEO Chris Wright to the Department of energy as an example of that radical agenda, and added Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Pete Hegseth as further evidence of what he called vindictive and dangerous picks.

After that intro, Sharpton turned to Padilla, who sits on both the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, asking what Democrats are “prepared to do” in response to these picks. “What are Democrats prepared to do in response? Whatever it takes,” Padilla replied, although it was not entirely clear what that meant.

“Donald Trump is way beyond making a mockery of what an incoming president should be doing, regardless of who’s in the majority of Congress,” Padilla added. He then said giving former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard any access to classified intel undermines national security before going off on Gaetz as an Attorney General nominee.

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