Dems criticize Trump’s first 100 days
Democratic lawmaker Rep. Hakeem Jeffries criticized the job Donald Trump has done as president in the first 100 days of his second term.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris on April 30 criticized President Donald Trump’s approach to the economy and warned of a constitutional crisis in her sharpest rebuke of the president since leaving the White House in January.
“Instead of an administration working to advance America’s highest ideals, we are witnessing the wholesale abandonment of those ideals,” Harris said in San Francisco during an address at the 20th anniversary gala for Emerge America. The organization recruits and trains Democratic women to run for office.
Harris, whose remarks came just one day after Trump marked his 100th day in office, said the new administration is trying to sow fear in Americans.
But in the face of fear comes courage, she said.
“The courage of Americans who are banding together in the face of the greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history,” she said. “Americans across the political spectrum who are declaring that the President’s reckless tariffs hurt workers and families by raising the cost of everyday essentials.”
The former vice president also warned that checks and balances that the United States has historically relied on “have begun to buckle.” Congress and the courts must do their parts to protect that balance, Harris said. But if the president defies them, it is the start of serious problems, she said.
“Friends, that is called a constitutional crisis,” she said. “And that is a crisis that will eventually impact everyone because it would mean that the rules that protect our fundamental rights and freedoms that ensure each of us has a say about how our government works will no longer matter.”