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For the first time since 2017, Republicans control the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Presidency. Unlike the first Trump Administration, however, they have a ready playbook and a commander-in-chief who is moving without hesitation to discard the most fundamental democratic rules and norms in service of establishing absolute power. The stakes are higher than they have ever been before, and Democrats have an obligation to meet the moment with commensurate creativity, energy, and resolve.

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I continue to believe that Congressional Democrats must be far more aggressive in confronting and opposing the Trump Administration. This is the second in my series of plans for how to do so.

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In the first two parts of The Fight Back Blueprint, I outlined strategies that Democrats should pursue to slow and stall Donald Trump’s agenda in Congress and ensure accountability for misconduct and lawbreaking. It is important, though, that we also think about the long term and strengthen laws that Trump has used to wreak such destruction and chaos. This paper, the third part of my blueprint, lays out plans to “Trump-proof” key federal statutes, so that no president in the future can weaponize them in the same way that Trump has. We must fight not only Trump but Trumpism.