Senate Democrats to mark Trump’s ‘100 days from hell’ with marathon speeches

<p>Minority leader Chuck Schumer accuses president of ‘acting like a king, a despot, a wannabe dictator’</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/29/trump-100-days-president">Trump’s first 100 days</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/29/donald-trump-100-days-in-office-immigration-tariffs-canada-mark-carney-us-politics-live-updates">US politics live – latest updates</a></li></ul><p>Democratic senators will on Tuesday mark <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a>’s 100th day in office with marathon floor speeches intended to highlight his administration’s failures, seizing on his divisive tariff policy and attacks on the judiciary to argue he was not joking when he mulled governing as “a dictator”.</p><p>Republicans, meanwhile, praised the president’s actions over the first 100 days, though the House speaker, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mike-johnson">Mike Johnson</a>, acknowledged “some bumps along the road” he described as the necessary byproduct of the radical changes Trump campaigned on.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/democrats-senate-trump-100-days">Continue reading...</a>