{"id":80932,"date":"2026-11-05T02:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/a-democratic-controlled-congress-will-likely-try-to-constrain-trumps-foreign-adventures\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T02:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:54:59","slug":"a-democratic-controlled-congress-will-likely-try-to-constrain-trumps-foreign-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/a-democratic-controlled-congress-will-likely-try-to-constrain-trumps-foreign-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"A Democratic-controlled Congress will likely try to constrain Trump\u2019s foreign adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the president still has veto power, which he can wield to dictate policy over tariffs, the war in Iran or aid for Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>In a rare occurrence, a US election may have actually been decided by foreign policy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s war in Iran and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">international tariffs<\/a> are seen as playing a key role in the inflationary pressures that drove so many Americans to vote against his party on Tuesday in what has been described as a \u201cgenerational wipeout\u201d for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And in the coming months, the president is going to face severe headwinds on those policies as Democrats storm back into control of Congress, threatening investigations of some of his top envoys and Pentagon contractors, big fights over budgets linked to the Iran war, and greater scrutiny of US relationships with allies such as Israel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/05\/democrats-trump-foreign-policy-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the president still has veto power, which he can wield to dictate policy over tariffs, the war in Iran or aid for Ukraine In a rare occurrence, a US election may have actually been decided by foreign policy. Donald Trump\u2019s war in Iran and international tariffs are seen as playing a key role in &#8230; <a title=\"A Democratic-controlled Congress will likely try to constrain Trump\u2019s foreign adventures\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/a-democratic-controlled-congress-will-likely-try-to-constrain-trumps-foreign-adventures\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Democratic-controlled Congress will likely try to constrain Trump\u2019s foreign adventures\">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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80932","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\/80932","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=80932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}