'They will pay a price': Senator vows to 'make life difficult for complicit Republicans'

A feisty Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) put his Republican colleagues on notice Wednesday morning that, if they don't "get serious" about pressuring Donald Trump to rein in Elon Musk's illegal takeover of the government, they can expect no help getting legislation passed or a budget deal done.

Speaking with the hosts on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Murphy launched in to a long diatribe over Musk's use of "20-year old henchmen" to take control of the levers of government and stated Democrats plan a major push-back.

"I do think people understand that we are the minority party," he first cautioned the MSNBC hosts. "We don't run the White House, we are the minority in the House and in the Senate but we need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis."

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"That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the United States Senate, Democrats should not be giving votes to nominees or to legislation in the United States Senate until Republicans get serious about this crisis," he continued. and then warned, "Democrats should not help Republicans raise the debt ceiling in order to pass their massive tax cut for billionaires and millionaires."

He later added that Democrats need to "show Republicans that they will pay a price."

Pressed by MSNBC regular Mike Barnicle if Democrats would "tie up the entire United States Senate for nearly a year," like Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has done, Murphy replied, "I don't know that there's anything different here."

"I mean, I and others have said that just like Tommy Tuberville wouldn't give consent for expedited confirmation of military nominees. We're going to do the same thing for State Department nominees and likely many other agencies. So there is not going to be business as usual in the Senate."

"It only takes one senator to stop expedited confirmation of some cabinet nominees and we shouldn't be granting expedited confirmation to anybody until this constitutional crisis passes," he elaborated. "We should not be making it easy for Republicans to do anything until they get serious about protecting our democracy."

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