A liberal House Democrat from California plans to skip President Donald Trump’s address to Congress this evening.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., the ranking member on the Home Financial Solutions Committee, told Property Democrats this morning that she will not attend the speech mainly because she does not assume she would be capable to handle herself, according to Democrats in the area for the caucus meeting.
“The president is not going to say what I want him to say,” Waters told ABC News in an interview soon after the meeting. “He’s gonna take credit for every thing.”
Waters has emerged as a single of Trump’s loudest critics on Capitol Hill. She has called his group a “bunch of scumbags” and stated he is “major himself” to impeachment.
General, Democrats have tiny appetite for causing a ruckus equivalent to GOP Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst against President Obama in 2009. The South Carolina congressman’s “You Lie!” moment in response to a comment from Obama about overall health care was swiftly condemned on Capitol Hill as a breach of decorum.
Residence Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., said he does not anticipate any organized protests during the remarks tonight from Democrats – even though some will be wearing commemorative pins.
Home Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Democrats are wearing white as a tribute to women’s rights and the suffragettes.
“We’re taking the Michelle Obama” route, Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Fla., said. “We’re going to be as dignified as probable below the circumstances.”
“I think we intend to be polite, and listen and definitely comment afterwards,” mentioned Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif. “There is a place for torches and pitchforks but not in the Residence of Representatives.”
Kentucky Rep. John Yarmuth, who, like Waters, skipped Trump’s inauguration, plans to attend the speech tonight to “show solidarity with my fellow Democrats.”
ABC’s MaryAlice Parks contributed to this report.
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