{"id":80875,"date":"2026-11-04T01:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/what-can-democrats-actually-do-with-control-of-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T01:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:55:05","slug":"what-can-democrats-actually-do-with-control-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/what-can-democrats-actually-do-with-control-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"What can Democrats actually do with control of Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats have taken back the Senate and are poised to take back the House. Here\u2019s what having a majority in both chambers would mean for them \u2013 and Donald Trump<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-election-results-question-answer\">Tell us: what do you want to know about the midterm election results?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/03\/democrats-senate-republicans-midterms-trump\">Democrats win control of Senate as US voters reject Trump\u2019s agenda<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/03\/midterm-election-results-live-updates\">US midterm elections \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/nov\/03\/midterm-elections-full-results-senate-house-governor-races\">Track live results from all 50 states<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/03\/democrats-senate-republicans-midterms-trump\">flipped the US Senate<\/a> and are on track to flip the House of Representatives in a massive rebuke of Republicans and Donald Trump\u2019s agenda. With Democrats winning in key swing states and congressional districts across the country, the final two years of Trump\u2019s presidency will look markedly different from the first half. But what can Democrats actually do with with congressional power?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/02\/democrats-midterms-congress-win-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats have taken back the Senate and are poised to take back the House. Here\u2019s what having a majority in both chambers would mean for them \u2013 and Donald Trump Tell us: what do you want to know about the midterm election results? Democrats win control of Senate as US voters reject Trump\u2019s agenda US &#8230; <a title=\"What can Democrats actually do with control of Congress?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/what-can-democrats-actually-do-with-control-of-congress\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What can Democrats actually do with control of Congress?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}