Rachel Maddow talks with Senator Brian Schatz as he briefly steps away from the Senate floor where he is participating in an overnight protest of Russell Vought, Donald Trump's pick for director of the Office of Management and Budget, and a co-author of Project 2025.
This is an adapted excerpt from the Feb. 5 episode of 'The Rachel Maddow Show.' Americans took to the streets all over the country Wednesday. Two and a half weeks into Donald Trump’s second administration, people from Olympia, Washington, to Tallahassee, Florida, gathered to speak out against the destruction of the federal government as we know it.
“It would not help us to be working with Republicans at the very moment the Constitution is being lit on fire,” Murphy said. “This moment demands some extraordinary tactics.” Those extraordinary tactics included Democrats holding the Senate floor overnight Wednesday and into Thursday to protest the nomination of Trump’s pick to run the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought.
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