Source: Fox News
“With President-elect Trump headed back to the White House and Republicans in the majority in Congress, Democrats have few options to push back against the GOP agenda. But one enterprising North Carolina lawmaker thinks his minority party should look across the pond to the United Kingdom for the answer to ‘go toe to toe’ with Trump. Rep. Wiley Nickels, D-N.C., has proposed that Democrats create a ‘shadow cabinet’ to organize the opposition and challenge each decision by the government. ‘Across the Atlantic, the British have something we don’t: a team from the opposition that mirrors the government’s cabinet members’ …. Wiley argues in an op-ed for the Washington Post. His proposal is to appoint 26 Democratic leaders in Congress to mirror Trump’s Cabinet-level officials and challenge each initiative of the incoming administration.” (11/16/24)