Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert. Let's go right into it. This is what an emerging and more

emboldened opposition to this Musk-Trump agenda looks like. Today, top Democrats using

their powers to grind the Senate to a halt over-selected Trump nominees. I'm going to show you

the Senate floor right now as this has continued in the midst of

the Democrats seizing the floor agenda for 30 hours, trying to yoke Elon Musk's controversial

plans to President Trump and some of these pending nominees, including a Project 2025 leader

who Donald Trump tapped to now run the nation's budget. That's a key perch if you want to

implement Project 2025 across the country, even as candidate Trump famously campaigned by claiming

to disavow the 2025 governing plan while Democrats hammered this today. I have nothing to do with

Project 2025.

He is Donald Trump's most dangerous nominee.

Behind every one of these budget lines are people.

This man, Russell, vote, and it is our job to say, stop.

People who will be hurt if the president and Mr. Vote get their way.

Vote has shown complete disregard for democratic institutions.

Vote has said we live in a quote, post-constitutional time.

That's what he believes we're in.

Do my colleagues agree with that?

This is, however, a constitutional time. Trump's push to issue those many orders that go beyond

his powers and have been overruled by the Constitution have actually drawn attention to the

constitutional time we're living in, to quote Senator Murray there,

to the limits on any president's power. It's drawn attention to how the Constitution and courts also guide this nation, not just one politician holding executive orders that now, some of them

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