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.

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    20 hours ago

    If you’re going to investigate everything, it’s going to take forever to impeach him. Or convict him. He can flood the zone with so much crime that it will never end. Get him behind bars first, then investigate the rest. Keep investigating until after he’s dead, but don’t let impeachment and sentencing wait for all that.

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      18 hours ago

      You don’t have to finish every single investigation to convict.

      Just bundle them up into fun little groups. Maybe a neat little pack of Epstein crimes - investigate, charge, convict. Do a fun little group of bribery - investigate, charge, convict. Next maybe some fraud? Investigate, charge, convict.

      The great thing is, you don’t have to wait for them all to finish before you work on the next one! It’s a cool trick called: more than one team doing things.