{"id":38367,"date":"2025-02-11T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38367"},"modified":"2025-02-11T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:13:00","slug":"house-dems-organize-rapid-response-task-force-and-litigation-group-to-combat-trump-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38367","title":{"rendered":"House Dems organize rapid response task force and litigation group to combat Trump agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rep Hakeem Jeffries calls the task force ‘an ongoing effort to push back against far-right extremism’<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., sent House Democrats<\/u><\/a> a letter Monday announcing the formation of a rapid response team and litigation group to “push back against the far-right extremism” since President Donald Trump took office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “Dear Colleague” letter, Jeffries wrote, “I write with respect to our ongoing effort to push back against the far-right extremism that is being relentlessly unleashed on the American people.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeffries characterized the political landscape<\/u><\/a> as “a multifaceted struggle to protect and defend everyday Americans from the harm being inflicted by this administration.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter states House Democrats have as a result officially established a Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group chaired by Colorado Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeffries said that Democrats would continue to be “committed to driving down the high cost of living for everyday Americans.” He criticized House Republicans for continuing to “launch far-right attacks on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public safety and the education of our children,” saying the American people were “counting” on Democrats to stop them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House, Jeffries’ office and Neguse’s office for comment but did not immediately hear back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeffries responded to a Fox News inquiry about the task force, saying, “It’s been an ongoing effort to push back against far-right extremism.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeffries told Fox that “not a single thing that [Republicans have] actually done is a matter of law right now” and said such actions suggest Republicans are “in disarray.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeffries, along with House Democrat colleagues, have unveiled efforts to resist the president’s agenda since Trump took office<\/u><\/a> in mid-January. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just last week, House Democrats announced legislation<\/u><\/a> that seeks to secure the personal data of Americans amid the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) spending sweep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legislation, titled the Taxpayer Data Protection Act, was revealed Thursday to “shield the American people from this out-of-control power grab, permanently, and make sure that the financial, personal, medical, and confidential information of the American people is protected.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk’s DOGE team has spent the last several weeks identifying “wasteful” spending within various governmental agencies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DOGE became the target of various lawsuits in the weeks following its establishment. A federal New York judge on Saturday ruled to block DOGE officials from accessing personal data such as social security numbers and bank account numbers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump’s Justice Department railed against the order<\/u><\/a>, calling it an “anti-Constitutional” ruling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice President JD Vance<\/u><\/a> also called the ruling unconstitutional on X, saying it was an example of judicial overreach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that\u2019s also illegal. Judges aren\u2019t allowed to control the executive\u2019s legitimate power,” Vance wrote Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rep Hakeem Jeffries calls the task force ‘an ongoing effort to push back against far-right extremism’ House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., sent House Democrats a letter Monday announcing the formation of a rapid response team and litigation group to “push back against the far-right extremism” since President Donald Trump took office.  In the “Dear Colleague” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32299,23716,29664,21502,25430,1230],"class_list":["post-38367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-agenda","tag-combat","tag-dems","tag-house","tag-task-force","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38369,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38367\/revisions\/38369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}