Hamilton said Congress should focus on clawing back Trump’s tariffs and ending the war with Iran.
Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton, who flipped deep-red Kansas for Democrats, said Sunday that he hopes to prioritize lowering costs for his constituents in the next Congress and that he would be “deeply disappointed” to spend two years investigating members of the Trump administration.
“The bigger priority for me, and I think for most people in America, especially people living paycheck to paycheck, is ‘please help us with the cost of living,’” Hamilton told NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
Specifically, he said the new Congress should immediately focus on ending the war in Iran and “claw[ing] back tariffs policies.”
“If I spent the next two years — my first two years in the Senate — in investigations, I’d be deeply disappointed. I want to get to work helping the people in my state and helping the people across the country,” Hamilton said.
If Democrats have any hope of winning the 2028 election, they need to learn how to walk and chew gum at the same time
Instead of loudly investigating and quietly going about normal business, they should quietly investigate and loudly go about the business of unwinding trunos fuck ups.
There needs to be accountability, but there also needs to be a change. If they can’t do both, the same will happen again.
It’s really strange, we pay these people to act as our representatives full time, drafting and proposing and voting on legislation. So why don’t we see more action?
I understand that when the GOP controls congress, nothing is going to come up for a vote unless they’re certain they want it to. But Democrats could still be introducing bills and spending time trying to force public awareness. And for a Democratic controlled congress even if they can’t control the presidential veto, like we’re about to see, why on earth shouldn’t they be passing major bills every week or two? Even if the president vetoes them, that is how you keep voters’ imagination and loyalty from drifting to the GOP, so I really hope that’s what we see.
Yet somehow I suspect we’re going to get into the driver’s seat and hear about maybe two or three bills a year, all attempted to be “bipartisan.” That’s why I’m so anxious to get Jeffries and Schumer out - they can’t imagine Congress acting any other way.
Because the American politics system with four fucking elected bodies, is dumb as shit and literally intentionally designed to make government ineffective.
An elected Senate and an elected House makes zero fucking sense. You just roadblock yourself constantly. The president being elected separately from either also makes no fucking sense.
And then the fact that your judiciary is like half elected is the most nonsense fucking bullshit on the planet.
Your system of government is not built or designed to be effective.
The amount you pay them in taxes is pocket change compared to what they get from the ruling class to not do that.
They should wait till he’s out of office for the charge though.
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Imagine if people could do 2 things at once. What a world we would live in, if that was true.
Yeah, but this is 54-56 senators and 250+ representatives. They can’t possibly do 2 things different things amongst all of them.
Does the American public have the attention to pay attention to two things at once? No.
Do you not remember that Trump was impeached and didn’t move the voting needle one iota? The American public does not care about anything other than their pocket book.
Didn’t move the voting needle, one iota, did it? Because as I recall, he lost the next election.
And won the one after that.
That’s not moving the needle, that’s shifting the goalposts
Lol, no it’s not.
You interpreted my comment as focusing exclusively on the single next presidential election, while I always meant the bigger picture.
The right wing and swing voters in America by and large did not care about impeachment. They voted in maga republicans after maga republican, and not only returned him to power, but also elected a majority Republican Senate and House that loudly and enthusiastically endorsed him.
Just saying “nuh-uh!” And then doubling down doesn’t make for a good counter argument.