Sen. Klobuchar, potential 2028 candidate, to accuse Trump of "unprecedented overreach" in speech tonight
Source: CBS News
Updated on: May 14, 2025 / 4:39 PM EDT
Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar is set to give a speech on the rule of law and what she paints as President Trump's overreach on Wednesday night, as Democrats look to find effective messaging that will resonate with voters about the early days of the Republican's second term in the White House.
Excerpts obtained by CBS News ahead of the event hosted by The New Republic show Klobuchar, a leading Senate Democrat who has not ruled out a 2028 presidential run, plans to make the case that "Donald Trump is trying to remake the executive office into one that is immune from outside accountability." "He's engaging in unprecedented overreach that disregards the rule of law and pretends as if the independent judiciary is a bug rather than a feature of our system," the Minnesota senator plans to say, according to the excerpts.
Mr. Trump's first months since he returned to the White House have found the president and his allies leaning heavily on executive power. His administration has clashed with Democrats over its attempts at curtailing spending already approved by Congress and has tangled with multiple federal judges over immigration. White House spokesman Kush Desai responded to Klobuchar's planned remarks by criticizing Democrats over the legal cases Trump faced during the 2024 cycle and the party's immigration policies.
"The Trump administration will continue to legally use every lever of power granted to the Executive Branch by the Constitution and Congress to finally put Americans and America First," Desai said in an email. Klobuchar, who is the leading Democrat on the Senate's agriculture committee and served as the Hennepin County Attorney in Minnesota before being elected to Washington, is also expected to try to put a real-world face on what she views as the impact of tariffs during Mr. Trump's second term.
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