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EXPLAINER: How Senate Democrats Can Delay & Defy Trump's Agenda with Procedural Hardball [1]

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Date: 2025-02

What Will This Get Us? Time

What Trump is doing is deeply unpopular. The reason he is doing so much so fast is to “flood the zone” and avoid allowing sufficient public pressure to build to stop him. The name of the game here is speed.

While Senate Dems are in the minority and can’t unilaterally stop Senate business, they can slow it down to a crawl. Trump and the Senate GOP want speed. Our goal is to slow things down to allow public attention to focus on what exactly is happening - and translate that attention into backlash.

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[1] Url: https://indivisible.org/resource/explainer-how-senate-democrats-can-delay-defy-trumps-agenda-procedural-hardball

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