U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday outlined the Democrats’ strategy to block or slow down the Trump administration and the Republican-dominated Congress, including deploying parliamentary maneuvers and becoming more “potent” on social media.

The strategy includes litigation, he said.     

“We’re trying to clog up the floor as best we can, or blocking bad bills which (ever) way we can,” the former Denver mayor and Colorado governor said. “There are a couple of thousand lawyers that are litigating every instance of illegality and of suspected illegality.”

The Trump administration is pushing its agenda through executive orders, targeting “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs, laying off federal workers to shrink what it described as a bloated bureaucracy, pulling funding on grants it deemed anathema to its priorities and laws, and cracking down on illegal immigration.

Many of the orders are being litigated.

Hickenlooper gave the Denver City Council an update on activities at the nation’s capital, as Senate Democrats announced they are digging in for a fight on a U.S. House-passed stopgap funding measure that is needed by Friday night to avoid a partial government shutdown.

After a closed-door caucus lunch, Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., announced that Democrats would fight for a one-month funding extension that would allow time for Congress to finish full-year appropriations bills. The House GOP’s continuing resolution, which passed on a mostly party-line vote Tuesday, would extend current funding through the end of this fiscal year, which is Sept. 30. Schumer said his caucus won’t provide the votes to get to the needed 60 to allow the measure to come to a final vote, raising the odds of a partial government shutdown when current stopgap funding runs out Friday at midnight.

Hickenlooper, who was critical of many of the president’s plans and policies, said Democrats are working to slow down votes.

He also disclosed that whistleblowers are “in place in pretty much every agency.”

“They (whistleblowers) are stepping up,” Hickenlooper told the council. “We’re making sure that they know how to how to get in front of the public and protect their anonymity if they need that. But as whistleblowers, they are a vital source of the facts about which laws are being broken and where and how that’s been happening.”

Councilmembers submitted several questions to Hickenlooper’s office in advance of his 36-minute video appearance on topics ranging from immigration to tariffs to municipal bond tax breaks.

“The goal is to keep the media disorganized and allow Trump to continue to dominate every news cycle,” Hickenlooper said of the president’s recent “flood” of executive orders and back-and-forth tariffs.

He also encouraged city councils nationwide to stay engaged and “stay loud,” and become more “potent” in terms of social media platforms.

“I’ve learned more in the last six months about social media,” he said. ”Now, as a Democratic caucus in the Senate, we are having young, 22 to 26-year-old influencers with three, four or five million followers coming in and describing how we need to go and get viral.”

Hickenlooper also encouraged protests at town halls and other events to create public pressure to force Republicans “to face their constituents and acknowledge the pain that they’re causing.”

“Legitimate opponents of democracy have won elections, and they are attacking every level of government with hatchets,” Hickenlooper said.