Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Democrat Lawmakers Spend All Day Filming ‘Sit-In’ On U.S. Capitol Steps

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Democrat lawmakers spent all day Sunday on the steps of the U.S. Capitol complaining about President Trump and Republicans.

Led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Democrat lawmakers staged a ‘sit-in’ for over 12 hours.

In other words, a drawn-out, dramatic publicity stunt.

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According to NBC News, Democrats met to voice opposition to the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill.

“This is a moral moment in America. Sitting on the Capitol steps with Leader Hakeem Jeffries this morning to discuss what’s at stake with Trump’s budget and affirm the need for action to protect Medicaid, food assistance, and other safety net programs,” Booker wrote.

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Per NBC News:

Booker and Jeffries spoke at the beginning of the sit-in, which began around 6 a.m., about their religious upbringings, saying they would usually be attending services on Sunday morning but instead were hosting the conversation on the Capitol steps.

“Martin Luther King said, ‘Budgets are moral documents,’ and that’s the spirit we come here with this morning,” Booker said before he urged supporters to join the two men online or in person.

The New Jersey senator called on supporters to “give your own testimony to your moral urgency that you feel, to maybe your faith traditions or moral traditions that … motivate you at this moment to speak out, maybe share your story of what the threat of this bill does to you and your lives.”

Early in the day, Jeffries also pointed out that they were hosting the sit-in on Booker’s birthday. After wishing the senator a happy birthday, the minority leader told him, “I’m sure you didn’t expect last year, when thinking about this birthday, that I would be your birthday date in this location, but this of course is the moment that we find ourselves in.”

Jeffries also brought a message for House Republicans, saying, “Enough. This is not America. We will continue to show up, speak up and stand up until we end this national nightmare.”

Ahead of Monday, when congressional lawmakers will return from a two-week recess, Jeffries said Democrats were preparing to face “an existential struggle to defeat Republican efforts to try to jam a very reckless budget down the throats of the American people.”

Dozens joined Jeffries and Booker on the Capitol steps, where they sat in the sunshine for over nine hours speaking about their faith traditions and the upcoming budget fight.

“We will continue to show up, speak up and stand up until we end this national nightmare,” Jeffries commented.

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CNN reports:

Earlier this month, Republicans in both chambers passed a budget blueprint to advance Trump’s sweeping legislative agenda, with leadership promising that the future bill will contain more than $1.5 trillion in spending cuts in addition to Trump’s proposed tax cuts and border priorities.

“We’re either going to choose the side of the American people or we’re going to choose this cruel budget that Republicans are trying to jam down the throats of the American people,” Jeffries said, adding that the bill could cut back on key healthcare and aid benefits for Americans, “all in the service of a massive tax cut for their billionaire donors.”

Democrats have said Republicans won’t be able to meet their commitments for deep spending cuts without scaling back Medicaid and Social Security, though House Speaker Mike Johnson has told centrist Republicans that the programs will be preserved.

Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Chris Coons and Angela Alsobrooks, plus activists, including American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley, have stopped by to join Jeffries and Booker in their conversation.

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