Hamilton said Congress should focus on clawing back Trump’s tariffs and ending the war with Iran.
Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton, who flipped deep-red Kansas for Democrats, said Sunday that he hopes to prioritize lowering costs for his constituents in the next Congress and that he would be “deeply disappointed” to spend two years investigating members of the Trump administration.
“The bigger priority for me, and I think for most people in America, especially people living paycheck to paycheck, is ‘please help us with the cost of living,’” Hamilton told NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
Specifically, he said the new Congress should immediately focus on ending the war in Iran and “claw[ing] back tariffs policies.”
“If I spent the next two years — my first two years in the Senate — in investigations, I’d be deeply disappointed. I want to get to work helping the people in my state and helping the people across the country,” Hamilton said.
You might need to impeach and remove this guy to get rid of tariffs and end the Iran war.
To build momentum for this you might need to investigate him.
Checkmate dems, you have to do both!
If Democrats have any hope of winning the 2028 election, they need to learn how to walk and chew gum at the same time
Instead of loudly investigating and quietly going about normal business, they should quietly investigate and loudly go about the business of unwinding trunos fuck ups.
There needs to be accountability, but there also needs to be a change. If they can’t do both, the same will happen again.
It’s really strange, we pay these people to act as our representatives full time, drafting and proposing and voting on legislation. So why don’t we see more action?
I understand that when the GOP controls congress, nothing is going to come up for a vote unless they’re certain they want it to. But Democrats could still be introducing bills and spending time trying to force public awareness. And for a Democratic controlled congress even if they can’t control the presidential veto, like we’re about to see, why on earth shouldn’t they be passing major bills every week or two? Even if the president vetoes them, that is how you keep voters’ imagination and loyalty from drifting to the GOP, so I really hope that’s what we see.
Yet somehow I suspect we’re going to get into the driver’s seat and hear about maybe two or three bills a year, all attempted to be “bipartisan.” That’s why I’m so anxious to get Jeffries and Schumer out - they can’t imagine Congress acting any other way.
GODDAMMIT I KNEW IT
Those things aren’t mutually exclusive! Do both of them!
Wait, having congress do two things at once? Preposterous!
Is that like “Por que no los dos?”
Why not both? There’s a couple of hundred of you to go around this time …
The senate has over-emphasized power, maybe it should execute it…without Chuck Schumer, stalwart of the status-quo…
I feel that politicians don’t “go after” each other because they hope in not doing so, no one will come after them (or their own) in the future. Just do your job … all of it!
I feel like if they’re smart, they’ll use the threat of it as ammo to get republicans to play ball with their initiatives. Put forth a bill to do something useful. It gets blocked by filibuster or veto? Great, let’s spend the next few weeks focusing on some really awkward depositions, investigations and prosecutions. Then try again. Repeat as needed until they get the hint.
