Liberal House Democrats are trashing Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE's Cabinet picks as an unqualified group of "misfit" plutocrats hell-bent on tearing down the agencies they've been tapped to lead.

At a press briefing in the Capitol, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) warned that Trump’s nominees would dismantle federal programs under their dominion at the expense of the working class.

"With only a few exceptions, the individuals that President-Elect Trump has appointed is the greatest collection of stooges and cronies and misfits we have ever seen in a presidential administration," said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.). "Some of these people's only qualifications for the jobs they are being appointed for is that they have attempted to dismantle and undermine and destroy the very agencies they are now hoping to run."

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Other CPC members piled on, naming a long list of nominees they see as either unfit, dangerous, or both.

"Rather than draining the swamp, he is now filling it up with hungry crocodiles," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.).

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) said the selection of Betsy DeVos, a billionaire activist nominated to lead the Department of Education, signals that Trump "intends to hollow out public education in pursuit of a privatization agenda."

"I support charter schools, but we should not create a private education system that exploits some children and benefits others," DeLauro said. DeVos, she warned, sees education "not as a public good, but as an industry."

Schakowsky hammered Steven Mnuchin, a billionaire financier nominated for Treasury Secretary, as "the Goldman Sachs golden boy and foreclosure king who profited off of thousands of people losing their homes."

She also minced no words in assailing Sen. Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsGOP set to release controversial Biden report Trump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status MORE, an Alabama Republican tapped by Trump to lead the Department of Justice (DOJ).

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"Sen. Sessions history of racism, xenophobia, homophobia and attacks on civil and voting rights is lengthy and well documented," Schakowsky charged. "He is the embodiment of division — the direct opposite of a unifying figure."

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Sheila Jackson LeeHillicon Valley: Murky TikTok deal raises questions about China's role | Twitter investigating automated image previews over apparent algorithmic bias | House approves bill making hacking federal voting systems a crime House approves legislation making hacking voting systems a federal crime Lawmakers press CDC for guidance on celebrating Halloween during pandemic MORE (D-Texas), who's also a member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), echoed those reservations with the Sessions pick. He "may be a nice fellow," she said, "but one's record and deeds evidence how you will govern."

"You have to be pure in your sense that justice is above politics," she said.

The liberal Democrats also warned that Ben Carson, a celebrated neurosurgeon nominated to become Trump's housing chief, "is dangerously under-qualified," in the words of Schakowsky.

Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump's pick to head the Health and Human Services Department, is also in the liberals’ sights for promoting long-held GOP efforts to repeal ObamaCare and privatize Medicare.

Price, Jackson Lee said, "clearly wants to dismantle and implode a safety net for millions of Americans."

Huffman voiced no lack of disdain for the news media, which he accused of focusing too intently on Trump's every tweet, in lieu of the overarching policy and personnel decisions that will form the backbone of his administration.

"We need the media to stop taking the bait," he said. "Anytime we're spending two, three days talking about some non-sequitur tweet from the president-elect, we're not doing our job. And the media's not playing its important role in what's left of this democracy."