Washington, D.C. (January 21, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced its day one executive orders:
“This is the closest margin between the parties in the House of Representatives in decades and Donald Trump received less than 50% of the popular vote, but the new governing team of MAGA zealots and billionaires is claiming some imaginary landslide mandate to push deeply unpopular and unconstitutional policies.
“Our real mandate is to work together for national progress.
“But the first batch of executive orders looks a lot more like the same old fanaticism and division: pardoning more than 1,000 rioters, including members of violent extremist street gangs like the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and 3%-ers who beat police officers as they stormed the Capitol; policies to attack the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, demonize immigrants and round up the undocumented and even their American children; elevating the wish-list of his Big Oil billionaire donors over the needs of the American people and our environmental priorities; and making good on his authoritarian promises of retribution and revenge.
“Democrats will continue to advance pragmatic policies to build on the strongest economy in decades created by Democratic policies, but that means increasing the minimum wage, strengthening the federal work force and unions, expanding climate action and clean energy jobs, and defending the rights and liberties of the people. We stand ready to find common ground with anyone committed to progress on these values.”
