The party of Trump is increasingly on the defensive, but Democrats seem unable to overcome the GOP’s Senate majority and presidential veto
As Washington moves from a week of twin setbacks for Donald J.
‘’When you lose control of the house you lose control of the agenda,’’ said Frank I. Luntz, a Washington-based Republican pollster. ‘’The Senate does confirmations and has the mechanisms of government but Democrats in the House decide what to vote on. It may have no impact at all—the Senate won’t pass their legislation, the President won’t sign it—but they control the conversation.’’
Moreover, the two parties are so far apart in their perspectives and profiles — and the Democrat’s seizure of the House has so profoundly changed the political calculus in Washington—that little can be expected to be accomplished on Capitol Hill for the next two years except deadlock.
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