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House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., sent House Democrats a missive Monday announcing the enactment of a accelerated effect squad and litigation radical to "push backmost against the far-right extremism" since President Donald Trump took office.
In the "Dear Colleague" letter, Jeffries wrote, "I constitute with respect to our ongoing effort to propulsion backmost against the far-right extremism that is being relentlessly unleashed connected the American people."
Jeffries characterized the governmental landscape arsenic "a multifaceted conflict to support and support mundane Americans from the harm being inflicted by this administration."
The missive states House Democrats person arsenic a effect officially established a Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group chaired by Colorado Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse.
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Jeffries said that Democrats would proceed to beryllium "committed to driving down the precocious outgo of surviving for mundane Americans." He criticized House Republicans for continuing to "launch far-right attacks connected Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, nationalist information and the acquisition of our children," saying the American radical were "counting" connected Democrats to halt them.
Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House, Jeffries' bureau and Neguse's bureau for remark but did not instantly perceive back.
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Jeffries responded to a Fox News enquiry astir the task force, saying, "It's been an ongoing effort to propulsion backmost against far-right extremism."
Jeffries told Fox that "not a azygous happening that [Republicans have] really done is simply a substance of instrumentality close now" and said specified actions suggest Republicans are "in disarray."
Jeffries, on with House Democrat colleagues, person unveiled efforts to defy the president's docket since Trump took office successful mid-January.
Just past week, House Democrats announced legislation that seeks to unafraid the idiosyncratic information of Americans amid the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) spending sweep.
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The legislation, titled the Taxpayer Data Protection Act, was revealed Thursday to "shield the American radical from this out-of-control powerfulness grab, permanently, and marque definite that the financial, personal, medical, and confidential accusation of the American radical is protected."
Elon Musk's DOGE squad has spent the past respective weeks identifying "wasteful" spending wrong assorted governmental agencies.
DOGE became the people of assorted lawsuits successful the weeks pursuing its establishment. A national New York justice connected Saturday ruled to artifact DOGE officials from accessing idiosyncratic information specified arsenic societal information numbers and slope relationship numbers.
Trump's Justice Department railed against the order, calling it an "anti-Constitutional" ruling.
Vice President JD Vance besides called the ruling unconstitutional connected X, saying it was an illustration of judicial overreach.
"If a justice tried to archer a wide however to behaviour a subject operation, that would beryllium illegal. If a justice tried to bid the lawyer wide successful however to usage her discretion arsenic a prosecutor, that’s besides illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to power the executive’s morganatic power," Vance wrote Sunday.
Fox News' Kelly Phares, Tyler Olson, Aubrie Spady, and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
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