"I've already issued a statement last night. I'm going to say something on the floor tomorrow," Sen. Harry Reid said. | AP Photo Reid plans to keep up anti-Trump barrage

Harry Reid will continue railing against Donald Trump and his political team all the way into retirement, telling POLITICO in an interview Monday morning that he will give a speech on Tuesday about Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist and former executive at Breitbart.

On Sunday, Reid's spokesman Adam Jentleson said Bannon's elevation "signals that White Supremacists will be represented at the highest levels in Trump's White House." Reid said on Monday that he's got more to say on Bannon.


"I've already issued a statement last night. I'm going to say something on the floor tomorrow," Reid said.

Though Reid is perhaps the Democrats' most fiery combatant, his sentiments about Bannon are shared among some Democrats. On Monday morning, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), a prominent liberal senator, agreed with Reid and called for Trump to "rescind the appointment of Steve Bannon."

"There should be no sugarcoating the truth here: Donald Trump just invited a white nationalist into the highest reaches of the government. Bannon has boasted that he made Breitbart News ‘the platform for the alt-right,’ which is the politically correct term for the resurrection of white nationalism," Merkley said.

Yet the outgoing Reid's strident rhetoric after a divisive election has also caused some divisions in his caucus. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said last week that Reid's post-election criticisms of Trump were "wrong" and an "absolute embarrassment."

"I'm not going to respond to [Manchin] directly, if anybody wants to defend the stuff that's going on, good luck to them," Reid said on Monday, recounting recent interactions between minorities and Trump supporters. "In Nevada the stuff that has happened since he was elected is really unbelievable."

Many Senate Democrats have thus far withheld directly criticizing Trump and his staff as they hope to work with Trump on issues that divide Republicans like infrastructure and cracking down on currency manipulation. Asked if he hoped to hear more condemnation of Trump from his own party, Reid responded: "That's up to them. I just do what I feel is right."