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This chapter develops two more case studies of Progressive/Liberal activism during the first years of the Trump administration. It examines the outspoken political challenges of Progressives Democrats in response to the president’s international travel bans in Trump’s first year in office. Members employed negative issue framing and protests to effect changes in policies. The chapter also analyzes Progressive challenges to the Trump administration’s approach to ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and related immigration legislation through traditional and nontraditional means.
President Trump’s ban on Muslim refugees betrays American values while undermining national security and economic prosperity.
—Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX) (2017)
There are two types of Democrats. There are killers, and there are whiners. Unfortunately, we have too many of the latter and not enough of the former.
—David Krone, Former Democratic Senate Aide (2017)
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The House member from the District of Columbia cannot vote, so we do not employ their scores to calculate average DW-NOMINATE rankings.
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Sadly, a far-right member of Congress later lashed out during a House Judiciary Committee meeting, telling Jayapal on the House floor that the Trump travel ban was not a “Muslim ban” and that she should “learn how to read” (Marcos, The Hill, October 31, 2017).
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To defeat the previous question is to give the opposition a chance to decide the subject before the House. “The refusal of the House to sustain the demand for the previous question passes the control of the resolution to the opposition” (Congressional Record, September 27, 2017). See 115 Cong. Rec. H7547, 2017.
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Homan, P., Lantis, J.S. (2020). Progressives and Foreign Policy in the Trump Era. In: The Battle for U.S. Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30171-2_7
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