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The Guardian - US
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Chris Stein in Washington

Senate Democrats to mark Trump’s ‘100 days from hell’ with marathon speeches

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The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said: ‘In record time, the president has turned a golden promise into an economic ticking timebomb.’ Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Democratic senators will on Tuesday mark Donald Trump’s 100th day in office with marathon floor speeches intended to highlight his administration’s failures, seizing on his divisive tariff policy and attacks on the judiciary to argue he was not joking when he mulled governing as “a dictator”.

Republicans, meanwhile, praised the president’s actions over the first 100 days, though the House speaker, Mike Johnson, acknowledged “some bumps along the road” he described as the necessary byproduct of the radical changes Trump campaigned on.

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