Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark attempted to convince CNN host Sara Sidner Monday that her party is racking up victories against President Donald Trump.
A CNN/SSRS poll found that 73% of voters who lean Democrat believe that congressional leaders in the party are doing “too little” to oppose Trump, with just 22% saying they are responding appropriately to the president. During an appearance on CNN, Clark claimed her party is holding Trump and Elon Musk “accountable” by using the court system to stop their attempts to eliminate wasteful government spending.
“Seventy-three percent of Democrats, or Democratic leaders, believe their party is not doing enough. Since Democrats do not control the House or the Senate, what is your plan to try and give Donald Trump some checks and balances?” Sidner asked.
“First, let me tell you, you got to understand how frustrated people are [as they are] watching what is happening with this administration and with the unvetted, unelected, richest man in the world [Elon Musk] running rough shot across our personal data and making — threatening the basic services that they provide … We understand that we are the minority party in the House and the Senate and they have the White House. And what we have seen is cowardice from House Republicans who won’t stand up for their constituents because they don’t want to step out of line. So we are calling out the illegal and unconstitutional acts that we are seeing in the courts. That’s our first line of defense,” Clark said. “Over 78 cases have already been brought, and we are winning, and holding Elon Musk and Donald Trump accountable.”
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Clark further said her party is “putting pressure” on just a few House Republicans, who she said hold a “slim majority,” to join Democrats and oppose Trump’s agenda.
“We are asking and putting pressure on 3 Republicans. That’s all it takes to have the courage to stand up for the people who sent them to Washington and say no to this. Say no to stealing their hard-earned tax dollars that we all once spent efficiently and handing it over to the billionaire class in this country,” Clark continued.
While the congresswoman accused Republicans of ignoring their constituents, polls have found that a majority of Republican voters support the efforts made by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). An Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from Jan. 24 found that 58% of Republicans supported the agency.
The CNN/SSRS poll found that while most Democrats are criticizing their party, most Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters, 64%, are satisfied with their party’s support for Trump.
Some Democrats have used violent rhetoric during their protests of Trump and Musk, and many have brought dozens of cases to court in an attempt to block DOGE from eliminating wasteful government spending. DOGE reported on Feb. 17 that the agency has saved $55 billion in federal spending by conducting mass layoffs and by dismantling the U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID) for wasting billions of dollars on left-wing causes, such as providing sex change operations in Guatemala.
Despite all of the legal challenges to DOGE, Democrats have been largely unsuccessful in stopping the department’s agenda. Fourteen Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Feb. 18 requesting that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan temporarily block DOGE, which she denied based on the lack of evidence that the agency caused any “imminent, irreparable harm” to the plaintiffs.
Trump’s approval rating reached its highest point across both of his terms in early February, with 53% of according to a CBS News/YouGov poll from Feb. 9. The same poll found that 70% of Americans believed that Trump is fulfilling his campaign promises.
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