What Trump's final 2 years in office will look like with Democrats in charge

CBS News · Caitlin Yilek, Kathryn Watson · 2026-11-06 00:23 UTC

Investigations, a struggle to confirm nominees and maybe some bipartisanship lie ahead for President Trump.

Washington — President Trump seems to be reconsidering his approach to Democrats after Tuesday's massive Republican election losses and has so far made contradictory comments about how he plans to deal with them as they take control of the Senate and the House in January.

"We're going to work with the Democrats," the president told Politico as GOP defeats were beginning to stack up Tuesday night, though in a phone call with CBS News' Robert Costa before polls closed, he had said, "I have the ultimate power — it's called 'veto.'"

By Wednesday afternoon, he had merged the two approaches.

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