Several Democratic members plan to boycott the first joint discourse of the Congress of the second term of President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Trump will address the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the American Capitol on Tuesday evening, but some Democrats plan to jump the event, including Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Who will rather take a live pre-ability of the speech.
“I think that the speech of the state of the union will be a farce. I think it will be a rally of Maga Pep, not a serious word to the nation”, Murphy said to cnn “State of the Union” on Sunday.
“I think Donald Trump will arouse a series of lies on his alignment with Russia, on what he tries to do to allow Elon Musk to monetize the US government essentially to enrich Musk and his billionaire crowd,” said Murphy. “And I’m not going to be part of it.”
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Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said he “would not be part” of Trump’s address in the Congress. (Anna Moneymaker)
Democratic Senator Brian Shatz, D-Hawaii, will join Murphy for the prebuttal of the speech that will be broadcast live while Trump speaks.
At least one Democrat in the House, representative Don Beyer, D-VA., Also said that he was going to skip the address.
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“The notion of half of my colleagues getting up and standing up and huge applauding for … things that, I think, are terrible for the American people every two minutes will not be funny,” said Beyer about the address, According to politico. “I don’t see that I will contribute anything to the event.”
Representative Don Beyer, D-VA., Said he would not attend Trump’s first joint address in the Congress. (J. Scott Applewhite)
The Democrats of the Chamber were questioned by the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) before the speech to bring the guests who were “injured” by the Trump administration, Fox News Digital learned.
“The DPCC and Leader Jeffries encouraged members to bring guests who were injured by Donald Trump’s threats to health insurance and rupture, as well as mass layoffs of veterans of his administration working in our public service – veterans like Gabe, a disabled marine veteran and a new dad who worked at IRS as Licensed on the last month, “a democratic amide told Fox News Digital.
Several Democrats who present the speech plan to bring federal workers who have been dismissed in recent weeks to protest against recent efforts from the Ministry of Efficiency (DOGE) to reduce federal agencies.
Senator Chris Murphy, President Donald Trump and representative Don Beyer appear side by side. (Getty Images | Donald Trump 2024 campaign)
Senator Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Doubt the Democrats’ refutation address after Trump’s speech, focusing on the actions that the administration is currently taking.
“The public expects the leaders to develop with them what is really going on in our country,” said Slotkin in a statement. “From our economic security to our national security, we have to trace a way to follow that really improves people’s lives in the country we all love, and I can’t wait to have this.”
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At least eight democratic legislators planned to boycott the discourse on the state of the Union of Trump in 2020, including members of progressive members such as the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y.
Fox News Digital contacted the offices of Murphy, Shatz and Beyer to comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
