House Democrats ratchet up fighting words against Trump

Emboldened by protests and an angry, motivated voter base, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats took pains Wednesday to make it clear that they will do everything they can to stand up to Trump.

House Democrats have appeared split in recent weeks about whether they should fight Trump on everything — similar to what Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did in the Senate on much of former President Barack Obama's agenda — or try to work with Trump on some issues in an attempt to win back more conservative Democratic voters who had abandoned the party and voted Republican in the presidential election.

Less than three weeks into Trump's presidency, New York Rep. Joe Crowley, the chairman of the Democratic conference, said he has never seen his party so unified in a single goal: to fight Trump and congressional Republicans.

The leaders said they will continue to get the message out to voters about what they feel Trump is doing wrong, including his executive order banning refugees and entry to the U.S. from seven majority-Muslim countries and Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obama's health care law.