Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they'd now oppose her in the wake of Trump's aggressive deportation plans and last week's incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.

Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.

Five days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, seven Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

Nearly 5 months later, most of them are critical of her, with some going as far as to say they regret their votes.

“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week. “If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn’t vote for her.”

Freshman Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also said he would vote differently and oppose her nomination if he could do it again.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      34·
      6 months ago

      Technically Dems didn’t confirm her. Every dem voted nay on several cabinet picks, such as fox news anchor Pete Hegseth who also lost 3 GOP votes and was still confirmed.

      Even those that voted to confirm Noem had a net zero impact.

            • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
              12·
              6 months ago

              None of this would be happening if people didn’t vote Republicans into power, and very few of these cabinet picks would pass with a simple DNC senate majority.

              Why blame Democrats for things Republicans do?

              • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
                21·
                6 months ago

                None of this would be happening if people didn’t vote Republicans into power, and very few of these cabinet picks would pass with a simple DNC senate majority. dems did more than just be republicans lite or controlled opposition.

                Why blame Democrats for things Republicans do?

                Why do dems keep working with or compromising with Republicans?

                • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  6 months ago

                  Whenever the DNC gets into power we get expanded medical coverage, consumer protections, union contracts which favor the workers, environmental protections and the IRS audits the rich. And that’s without even proper majorities without caucus.

                  You’ve intentionally blinded yourself to reality.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    29·
    6 months ago

    i hope you get to tell this to a tribunal that tries you for cooperating with fascists once this is over

      • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
        3·
        6 months ago

        I think this has a very high chance of being exactly the case, out of all the comments in this post.

        Edit: actually, IIRC, Schumer has more or less stated that it’s his plan to just let Trump off the leash, not be an opposition party at all, and let Americans get what they voted for. Basically, instead of seeing that they lost to motherfucking Trump a second time and wondering if maybe they’re the problem, they’ve decided on punishing all of the US, including their own constituents who did elect them, for not choosing the democrats.

          • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
            2·
            6 months ago

            Trying to find it and not having a lot of luck because I don’t remember the exact quote, and variations of “Trump Schumer Poll Strategy” just leads to a dump truck of results about Schumer’s own (worse than Trump) embarrassingly bad poll numbers and articles about how pissed off democrats are with their own party. IIRC, it was on the Daily Show. I’ll update if I do find it.

    • SippyCup@feddit.nlEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      Build a support network in your community.

      Start yesterday if you can. Start doing it now if you can’t.

      Start a garden, make tools, do whatever you can to make you and your neighbors a little more self sufficient.

      We need a general strike. We need to be prepared first

        • reddit_sux@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 months ago

          It is never too late. It might be late to prevent but not to fight back. Even at times of martial law there is always something you can do to fight.

  • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
    37·
    6 months ago

    Everybody that has voted while Trump is president should be voted out. If they voted for any approval or confirmation, fuckin voted out.

    They sold out our nation.