Democratic federal lawmakers are back in the state today holding another public event to call out the federal government for its latest round of cuts, this time aimed at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has about 50,000 federal employees based in new Jersey.

It's just the latest in a string of press conferences Democrats have held since President Trump took office.

As the party remains fractured on how to respond and more voters are voicing frustration with whether the party is doing enough to stand up to the administration.

Senior correspondent Joanna Gagis reports.

You all know better than anyone that these attacks on HUD and all of our federal employees are wrong.

The Trump administration is putting a stop to funding that would create more affordable housing.

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Senator Andy Kim, Congresswoman Lamonica McIvor and Congressman Rob Menendez joined with several housing and labor groups to protest the latest round of federal cuts announced by the Trump administration, this time to HUD, the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

We've all seen the news of thousands of employees who have been unjustly terminated because of Elon Musk and Trump's political Doge take over.

These are people who keep our community safe, who will keep our people shelter, who keep our airports operational, our air and water clean, our veterans healthy, and all just efforts are directly hurting the people in our community.

These layoffs come as new Jersey faces a housing affordability crisis.

Almost 300,000 New Jerseyans rely on federal housing programs to stay in their homes, to be part of our communities, to contribute to what makes this state so incredible.

What we see is an attack by President Trump, by Elon Musk against public servants, against people who are serving this nation, against people who are trying to deliver services to the American people in this incredibly difficult time.

But as much as Democrats are out here committing to the fight against these federal cuts, recent polling shows their efforts aren't really resonating with their Democratic voters.

This is a low point in favorability ratings in this national poll from CNN.

For the Democratic Party, we see that Democrats think that their party is going in the wrong direction.

That Democrats feel that their party should work to stop the Republican agenda, rather than work with Republicans.

On the flip side, Republicans in that poll showed high favourability for their party, with 79% taking a positive view of the GOP.

Last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer voted with Republicans on a continuing resolution to keep the federal government open, saying a shutdown would have been a crisis far worse than anything Democrats are concerned about now.

I took a different vote.

You know, I think, we need to stand up against the CR to be able to stand up against what the Republicans are doing.

I know that the Democrats are going to continue to get together and try to think through that broader strategy.

You know, we certainly need to be able to do better.

Congressman Menendez shared one new strategy.

We're also part of the House litigation working Group and Rapid Response Task Force to identify opportunities for litigation moving forward.

We're already seeing success in the courts.

We will continue to press there.

Do you think the strongest way to fight or buck this administration is through the courts?

We've seen success already, right?

A number of restraint, temporary restraining orders, number of decisions have been elevated.

And we continue to continue to see wins.

Today's court decision and the administration announcing, I think 24,000, laid off federal workers are going to be returned to their jobs is a great step.

So seeing success there is critically important.

But we need it.

We need to be hitting on all fronts, and we need to continue working on our mobilization efforts to keep people engaged.

We need a new era of public service in this country.

We need a new.

That's not what this country can do for you kind of moment that the public servants here in this building across the state and across this country have answered that call, that new era, says Ashley Koning.

Could look like factions forming within the party, similar to what we saw from Republicans who formed the Tea Party.

The Tea Party was mad at the Republican Party at the time and decided to band together and form its own faction.

You know, I would not be surprised if we see some factions emerging within the Democratic Party as well.

Does not only take a divided kind of broken party and break it even further.

Yes and no.

I mean, we've seen this happen in the Republican Party as well.

If a certain faction gains kind of more leverage than the others, especially going into the midterms, it could really shape what the Democratic Party becomes, what the party becomes.

It seems Democrats are still trying to figure out in Newark on Joanna Gagis, NJ Spotlight News.