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"What is at stake is the defense of our fundamental democratic rights and constitutional freedoms," said one organizer.

The targeting of foreign students at Columbia, Tufts, Georgetown, and other universities has led to outcry among academics, particularly as the ICE abductions have taken place alongside threats from the Trump administration to pull funding...

"This bill would rubber-stamp unchecked abuses of power even further," said the leader of one government watchdog group.

"If they succeed, CEOs and Wall Street will once again be free to trick, trap, and cheat you," said the Democratic senator.

"The people who keep our food and medicine safe know more about how to make government efficient than an outsider whose companies benefit from the very agencies he is infiltrating." - Julia Conley

Trump's decision to halt funding for a variety of federal programs is "straight out of Project 2025, the far-right blueprint crafted by Russell Vought," said one lawmaker.

Leaders of the grassroots group Indivisible said voters are eager to beat the Trump agenda, and called on Democratic leaders to act as a true opposition party.

"Los Angeles is on fire right now, and this is the number one priority this majority has," said the congresswoman.

"The war in Gaza is a war on children. There is no plainer way to illustrate this than to look at the people who make up the death figures—over 4 in every 10 people verified killed in Gaza are children."

The president-elect's "ability to escape prosecution does not retroactively validate his illegal, unconstitutional and democracy-destroying activities," said one critic.