Trump to face new limits after midterms blowout
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Democratic congressional leaders are promising to use their victories in the midterm elections on Tuesday to seek new restraints against President Donald Trump, while leaving an opening for legislative deals that would lower consumer prices for energy and other goods.
Democratic congressional leaders are promising to use their victories in the midterm elections on Tuesday to seek new restraints against President Donald Trump, while leaving an opening for legislative deals that would lower consumer prices for energy and other goods.
Democrats on Capitol Hill have felt largely powerless for nearly two years as Trump and his administration unilaterally cut staffing at federal agencies, launched military strikes and stymied the development of clean energy projects. Democratic leaders say those dynamics will change with their midterm wins, as they try to bring the kind of accountability they say has been nearly nonexistent under the Republican-led Congress.
"Whenever Trump defies the will of the American people or the law, we will launch investigations, take him to court, and entangle him in legislative razor wire," Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said on Wednesday.
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