Nearly two dozen state attorneys general have determined that the best use of their time is to meet daily and look for ways they can undermine President Donald Trump — and the agenda the American people voted to see implemented.
According to a report published Thursday by POLITICO, 23 state attorneys general all login for a daily call so that they can better “coordinate their plans” to block, stall, or otherwise impede the efforts being made by the Trump administration — which thus far have been primarily focused on cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, protecting women and girls in athletics, and keeping Americans safe from criminal illegals.
“They share updates on the seven cases they have moving through federal courts and argue about whether to treat Elon Musk as a lawful arm of the government or an uncredentialed interloper to it. They plot where to respond next, leveraging timezone differences to expand the workday,” the report noted.
Democrats are in a very different position than they were in 2017 after Trump was elected the first time, POLITICO pointed out. In 2017, for example, Trump had won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote — which gave pundits leverage to declare his victory as somewhat “less-than” — and major protests erupted across the nation almost immediately.
Trump currently enjoys higher favorability ratings and approval ratings than he did in 2017, and a majority of Americans support many of the agenda items his administration has already begun to implement.
In addition, the speed with which the Trump administration has worked to get the ball rolling, particularly with regard to gaining control of the southern border and beginning to execute a plan for mass deportations — along with cutting waste, fraud, and abuse via the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative — has left Democrats flat-footed and unable to grasp at a singular issue around which they can rally.
The solution, according to Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez, is a coordinated effort led by state AGs: “Right now in the United States, the Democratic AGs are the only group of people who are united and working to prevent some of these unconstitutional actions from continuing.”
Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings agreed, adding, “We talk each and every day these days, and you’d think we start to get tired of it, but we’ve just grown closer over time. And in the next four years, we’re going to grow very close.”
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has already predicted that their efforts will end in failure, arguing that they are doing little more than “playing politics” and delaying the inevitable.
TRUMP WILL ‘PREVAIL’: Attorney General Pam Bondi tells @marthamaccallum that the Democrat state attorneys general suing to stop DOGE from exposing waste and abuse are playing politics — and will fail. pic.twitter.com/VZmEM3BdzN
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 14, 2025
“The president of course is going to prevail, he’s looking out for our tax dollars,” Bondi told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum in mid-February.
