On Sunday, Democrats expressed their disappointment at their universal party’s response to President Trump’s speech to Congress last week, and they criticized a colleague who protested from one man during the speech by standing and screaming over and over again, “no mandate.”
The party leadership urged its members last week to organize an official and consistent protest during Mr. Trump’s speech on Tuesday, which was broadcast to nearly 37 million viewers. But the actor Al -Green of Texas raised the president, and in the end he was accompanied outside the room.
The criticisms aimed at Mr. Green are at a time when Democrats in Congress discuss the extent of hindering the agenda of Mr. Trump. Government financing is scheduled to end after midnight on Friday, Democrats You must decide Whether they will vote in favor of legislation to avoid closing or refuse to do so, while Mr. Trump calms and dismantled federal programs.
On Sunday news programs, five Democratic lawmakers, including two progressive criticisms of Mr. Green. They referred to A violent reaction generated his protest from Republican and non -party votersIn addition to the interest of the media that she created, which they saw as distraction on the messages of Democrats against Mr. Trump’s policies.
“This was a strategic mistake and something inappropriate for his decorative in the US House of Representatives,” said actor Tom Suzuzi, a Democrat in New York, on CBS. Mr. Sokuzi, whose area voted for Mr. Trump in 2024, One of the 10 Democrats voted with the Republicans For official control, Mr. Green on Thursday. Blame is one of the highest reprimands at home.
Senator Adam Chef, a Democrat in California, said to ABC that “coordinated response” to the Democrats was “a mistake” and that his party should have focused on how the Republicans plan to reduce government spending. It may lead to discounts on medical aid.
“This, for me, is the winning issue to be done,” he said.
Senator Elissa Sluttin, Democrat Michigan, who gave her party’s response to a speech on Tuesday, admitted to NBC that Mr. Green was the result of “extreme frustration” with the Trump administration.
But Mrs. Slotkin quickly added that her approach is vigorously from Mr. Green.
“We cannot be against something,” said Ms. Slutin, a moderate democratic who won November in the state of Mr. Trump. “We have to be something.”
The comments of these legislators largely echoed the views of the democratic leadership, which were hoping to become a realistic response to pocket and health care issues, the news instead of opposing Mr. Green.
When he pressed the protest of Mr. Green, actor Hakim Jeffrez, Democrat in New York and the leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, said on Wednesday, “The vast majority of the Democrats showed seizure, and listened to what the president said and of course we disagree strongly,” said the actor Hakim Jeffrez, Democrat in New York and the leader of the minority in the House of Representatives.
Senator Chuck Schumer from New York, the leader of the Senate, said on Wednesday that his party needed to focus on delivering messages on economic issues such as high food, housing and gas costs, and suggested that Mr. Green’s form of protest was not “the best way.”
Even the colleagues of Mr. Green in Washington continued to criticize him on Sunday.
Senator Andi Kim from New Jersey said on CNN that legislators on both sides of the corridor need to adhere to a higher level of decoration. Mr. Kim said that he did not agree to “this type of behavior” and compared Mr. Green’s response to the response of actor Margori Taylor Green, the Republic of Georgia. Mrs. Green, the right -wing Firerand, routinely boycotted Speech of former President Joseph R. Biden in front of Congress.
Actor Rowna from California went further and told Fox News that the spread of Tuesday was “not a good look” for the Democrats, and the repercussions of Mr. Green’s “distraction” were one of the economic messages of Democrats.
Mr. Khana said: “You can vary strongly as I do, but I still respect some of our country’s institutions and some of our traditions.”
On Thursday, Mr. Green defended his behavior and made the issue of Democrats to engage in “good discontent and good lining” in the face of Mr. Trump’s language, tactics and attempts to circumvent Congress.
He said in the House of Representatives hall after the vote, adding: “There is a time when you cannot allow the president to ignite to take advantage of our policy.
Mr. Green, who is black, put his protest in the context of the civil rights movement.
He said, “I remember what it takes to bring me in this house – I am not here because I am very smart.” “I am here because people made great sacrifices, and that was not overcoming, it was a breakdown.”
Maya C Miller The reports contributed.
