Here's what Democrats in Congress can do to fight Trump's agenda | Opinion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Similarly, there is a basis for Senate Democrats to challenge the powers granted to Elon Musk in his leadership capacity at the new federal Department of Government Efficiency.
41% : Trump has nullified the Senate's role by bestowing great authority on Musk without Senate confirmation.
39% : So far, however, Republicans have acted in virtually complete lockstep, showing an unwillingness to buck Trump.
35% : And there is much more that Democrats in Congress can do: Although they cannot convene formal hearings, nothing prevents them from convening public sessions where they draw public attention to the harms of the Trump administration's policies.
29% : For example, the president has frozen large amounts of federal spending (some estimates have been that the Trump administration has frozen as much as $3 trillion that had been appropriated by federal statutes).
24% : The Senate confirmed every one of Trump's highly questionable nominees, including Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and Kash Patel as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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