Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on What Democrats Ought to Do Subsequent

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The Washington Roundtable discusses the fallout of the White Home releasing, after which rescinding, a memo meant to freeze trillions of {dollars} in federal grants and loans. The incident, in addition to this week’s Senate affirmation hearings for controversial Cupboard nominees corresponding to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Kash Patel, affords Democrats a possibility to grab management of the narrative—if they will get organized, Sheldon Whitehouse, the Democratic senator from Rhode Island, says. “If what Democrats are doing is operating round calling them chaotic and incompetent, that’s not going to win the day until these expenses are related to precise harms occurring to common folks.”

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