Posted on 01/02/2026 10:41:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump will spend the whole year with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, assuming resignations don’t take their toll in the lower chamber. But those majorities will be on the ballot in November’s midterm elections.
If Republicans lose control of either house of Congress, it will be extremely difficult for Trump to do anything legislatively for the remainder of his presidency.
Republicans have a historically small majority in the House, currently just 220 to 213, with two vacancies. The Senate’s GOP majority is somewhat more robust at 53-47. All 435 House seats and about a third of the Senate are up for reelection next year.
Under the Constitution, all tax and spending legislation must originate in the House. That’s also where impeachment proceedings start. During Trump’s first term, a Democratic-controlled House impeached him twice, though he was not convicted by the Senate either time.
The Senate confirms executive and judicial branch appointees. If Democrats took the majority there, it would become difficult to get new nominees approved. The Cabinet might be frozen in place, because Democrats would effectively have veto power over any replacements. It would also be challenging to shift the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, which Trump bolstered with the help of a Republican-controlled Senate during his first term, any further to the right.
Just last year, the Democrats were able to force the longest government shutdown on record without controlling either house of Congress. Their hand would be strengthened by a majority in either chamber.
The presidential race will also begin in earnest once the midterm elections are complete. Trump is term-limited and, all joking aside, appears to accept that he cannot run in 2028. Vice President JD Vance is being groomed to take his place, possibly on a ticket with...
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Exactly! 2026 should be filled with arrests and prosecutions followed by LONG prison sentences. If not then we are done as a nation.
Going forward every Trump action and or non action should start with these two questions. Does it reduce leftest power. Does it reduce leftist influence.
**It all pivots on whether Blondi and Pastel start arresting people.**
Wrong! It starts with a third of the congressional republicans recruiting 100% of the democrats to EXPELL MTG before her congressional retirement takes effect. You’ve got to show people that we’re not messing around. You do it with the one abandoning her seat.
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