With less than a week until a possible government closure, Senator Elissa Slinin, de Mish, said on Sunday that she would “block” her vote for government financing until Congress gets assurances from the Trump administration that the funds will spend the way legislators intend.
“The president has decided to spend money in any way he wants, even when we have a budget for both Democrats and Republicans. This is a constitutional issue, right?” Slotkin said in an interview on NBC News “Meet the Press”.
Al-Senator added in the first magazines: “Everyone knows that Congress has the strength of the wallet, so I only-even I see some assurances that everything we are going through next week will ensure that the money is spent on the way in which Congress intends, I will block my vote.”
Her comments come the next day after Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, R. La.
Senator Patti Murray, D-Wish, and Representative Rosa Deloro, Di Kun, designed the draft law, among the major Democrats in the Credit Committees in the Senate and the Council.
Murray described it as “a continuous decision of the fund”, and Deloro said it “seizure of power for the White House and also allows the billionaire that Illon Musk has not been verified and its president [Donald] Trump to steal from the American people. “
However, Republicans keep a majority – albeit thin – in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Slotkin, who last week gave the official democracy response to Trump’s lengthy speech to a joint session of Congress, on Sunday, was also weighing the current situation of the Democratic Party and whether he had a clear leader.
“I don’t think it is the secret in which the Democrats were in their wake since Trump won the elections, right?” Slotkin said, “Meet the Press” Kristeen Welker said.
“I think you cannot improve until you admit that you have a problem. For me, this is one of the things that I think some new voices in the party were really greeting, right?” Said Slotkin, who won the Senate elections at the state level in Michigan as Trump was also carrying the state in November.
Al -Senator added: “New Senate members, new representatives, and new people who resemble,” hey, we need to do more, and we have to appear that we really have a plan to defend important moments. “This is what I am trying to do from within.”
Slotkin also dealt with the decision of MP Green, D-TEXAS, to disable Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday by waving his cane on the president until he was accompanied by an arms sergeant.
“There is a lot of frustration from the Trump administration,” Senator said about Green. “It is not personally, the way I interact with.”
“I know Congress member Green, and it was clear that he was with great enthusiasm. She added that this is not a number 1.
On Thursday, Green was supervised by the home hall by his colleagues in a two -party vote condemning his actions.
Slotkin also called on Democrats and Republicans to “do better and act like adults” to balance the federal budget.
“We have a position in which the policy between Democrats and Republicans is so broken that what seems logical, correctly, people enter a room and say,” see, we have to live within the limits of our capabilities. “This means that we cannot spend much and we cannot reduce the money to the family, to the federal budget in millions, millions and millions. We have to make balance work. “
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