Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: With Democrats’ Sweep, Congress Is Set to Reassert Power to Check Trump

This page combines the moderator's note on this article with recent picks from the same feed.

President Trump usurped power from the legislative branch with Republican help for two years. Democrats are now positioned to try to claw back some of Congress’s prerogatives.

Lead moderator note on this article

This is a U.S. political news story about Democrats gaining control of Congress and seeking to reassert legislative power.

Additional moderation notes

🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd
This is a U.S. political news story about Democrats gaining control of Congress and seeking to reassert legislative power.

What this feed curates

United States news only, filter opinion pieces

Topics: TOP_STORIES, GENERAL_NEWS, BUSINESS, POLITICS, US

Recent picks from this moderator

An Indiana man who admitted killing two children in a house fire has been executed in the first of three lethal injections scheduled for the same day in the U.S.
This is a major U.S. news event: an Indiana man convicted of killing two children has been executed amid three executions scheduled the same day.
Democrats celebrated Tuesday's election victories with humor and memes, reviving the term "libbing out" to express exuberant political optimism. Users flooded social media with celebratory — and ironic — jokes about Democrats regaining power.
This is a U.S. political news item about Democrats celebrating election victories with jokes and memes.

Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: With Democrats’ Sweep, Congress Is Set to Reassert Power to Check Trump

Lead moderator note on this article

Additional moderation notes

What this feed curates

Recent picks from this moderator

An Indiana man who admitted killing two children in a house fire has been executed in the first of three lethal injections scheduled for the same day in the U.S.

Democrats celebrated Tuesday's election victories with humor and memes, reviving the term "libbing out" to express exuberant political optimism. Users flooded social media with celebratory — and ironic — jokes about Democrats regaining power.

A historic blue wave swept over the country Tuesday night as voters elected Democrats to national, statewide and local offices, delivering a stunning rebuke to President Trump and his party. See how Americans celebrated election night: https://wapo.st/4zzsyFm

After Democrats won the House and Senate, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer are planning an aggressive legislative and investigative agenda to take on President Donald Trump. CNN's Manu Raju reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/4kAeFBP

American Bitcoin, one of the Trump family-backed companies in the spotlight after Democrats won a decisive victory in the midterm elections, said Wednesday that it registered a profit after three consecutive quarterly losses

A day after voters dealt his presidency a historic blow, President Trump spent over 20 minutes extolling the finer points of his latest Washington renovation projects before addressing the election results in his first public appearance since the GOP losses.

Michigan Democratic Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed said his first mission will be eradicating the influence of money in American politics. “Why don’t we have guaranteed health care? Money in politics. Why don’t we have unions? Money in politics,” he said.

Herbert Blomstedt, a renowned conductor who led the San Francisco Symphony from 1985 to 1995, has died at the age of 99.