US EditionMerkley Delivers 22-Hour Senate Speech Against Trump Actions
- On Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley held the Senate floor into the night to protest what he says are threats to democracy.
- Citing voting and redistricting changes, Merkley says the protest targets alterations to voter registration files, gerrymandering of House districts and efforts to eliminate vote-by-mail.
- Standing by a poster, Merkley warned, `It is the effort to mobilize the military to go after peaceful protestors and to create violent interactions that would justify even more authoritarian power` and said, `This is un-American`.
- Senate colleagues Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Dick Durbin and Sen. Andy Kim intermittently questioned U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley during his protest amid the ongoing government shutdown.
- Legal clearance to federalize Oregon's National Guard underscores the stakes, as a federal appeals court cleared the way for deployment while a legal challenge proceeds.
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Sen. Jeff Merkley Delivers Nearly 23-Hour Anti-Trump Speech
Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty As I’ve written previously, MAGA supporters call it “Trump Derangement Syndrome” when we say President Donald Trump has been running an authoritarian regime in his second term, but the true TDS is people watching Trump consistently embody all that is federal government overreach, and simply ignoring the facts because they love their MAGA messiah so much. On Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) spoke on the Senate f…
Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon concluded a 22-hour, 37-minute marathon intervention in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, protesting President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian tendencies” and in the middle of the 22nd day of the partial closure of the federal government.
For more than 22 hours, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley spoke: a single reckoning with Donald Trump's policy. And this during one of the longest shutdowns in US history. And the opposite side?
Sen. Jeff Merkle delivers 22-hour marathon speech on Senate floor protesting Pres. Trump’s policies
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, delivered a 22-hour marathon speech on the Senate floor beginning on Tuesday evening, holding the floor overnight and into the day Wednesday in protest of President Trump’s policies. The senator’s remarks also came amid a prolonged budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans that has kept the government partially shut down for four weeks. Merkley, 68, began speaking at 6:21 p.m. on Tuesday and continued until 4…
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