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Schumer, Jeffries Short on Specifics on Resisting Trump Agenda

In remarks about President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his House counterpart, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, predictably excoriated the president’s agenda, but didn’t provide a clear strategy by which they would resist him.

The two New York Democrats accused Republican congressmen of going along with Trump’s agenda to the detriment of the country, but did invite Republicans to resist Trump.

They were joined by dozens of Democrat congressmen on the steps of the Senate.

“Know that as we fight on the inside, we need you to fight on the outside,” said Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., a generality that echoed the vague Democrat strategy presented throughout the news conference. 

“And we will prove once again that this is the United States of America, and at the end of the day, it’s the people who…

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