Waxman has been highly critical of President Donald Trump since the 2016 election, telling City & State PA that he was "looking for new ways to fight Trump..I'm not giving him a chance."[REF]
Waxman announced on Facebook on January 23, 2017 that he was leaving the Pennsylvania Senate to become the executive director of Wage Change, a new grassroots organization of small businesses that were raising employee pay voluntarily in protest of federal inaction on the minimum wage [REF].