In March 2025, as Donald Trump resumed the presidency, he took immediate actions that included issuing 26 new executive orders and rescinding a similar number from the previous administration. Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries responded with mixed messages, highlighting their defensive stance. This period marked the emergence of what is referred to as 'Resistance 2.0', showcasing the party's reluctance to vigorously oppose initiatives like the Laken Riley Act, despite its constitutional implications, indicating a troubling trend in Democratic responses to GOP legislation.
As the tin-pot edicts piled up throughout Trump's first week, rescinding infrastructure outlays and prescription-drug price controls while upending antidiscrimination protections in federal offices and seeking to abolish birthright citizenship, Schumer's House counterpart, Hakeem Jeffries, rallied to the crisis with this grammatically challenged lurch into milksop spirituality: "Presidents come and go. Through it all. God is still on the throne."
The party caved without a whimper before the GOP's draconian Laken Riley Act, which authorizes deportation proceedings against undocumented immigrants who are merely accused of nonviolent offenses.
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