Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader (D-NY), unveiled a 10-part strategy for House Democrats to combat many of the President Trump’s efforts to overhaul the federal bureaucracy.

Why it matters: Tensions are rising between Democratic legislators and the party’s grassroots about how the minor party, with very little power, can counter the most incendiary moves of the new administration.

Driving the news: Jeffries, in a letter addressed to House Democrats as “Dear Colleague”, vowed to leverage a federal funding deadline of March 14 to stop Trump from freezing or transferring funds appropriated by Congress.

He wrote: “I have made it clear to the House Republican leadership that any attempt to steal money from taxpayers must be stopped in the next government funding bill if not earlier.”

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This is in response to an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo, now rescinded, that ordered federal grant and loan freezing. The order caused confusion and locked out states from the Medicaid portal.

Jeffries said Democrats would introduce a law to prevent “unlawful” access to the Treasury Department payment system, after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency was reportedly forced to gain access over the objections of senior officials.

The bottom line: Democrats are convinced that Speaker Mike Johnson (R, Louisiana) is in a tight majority. They will have to turn to them in order to raise the debt limit and fund the government.

This would allow them to temper the excesses they perceive in the GOP trio that now governs Washington, D.C.

Some Republicans had hoped that the debt ceiling would be included in the huge party-line fiscal legislation they were planning. But Johnson has indicated it will most likely need to be passed bipartisanly.

Zoom in: Jeffries also hinted at a continuation to the public messaging campaign, which Democrats attribute for the revocation of the OMB memorandum.

He said he would hold a teletown hall on Monday night.

He wrote that Democrats in the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees would present to their colleagues the ongoing lawsuits they are pursuing against Trump’s actions, such as firing inspectors and purging civil service.