Trump promised every adult $5,000 if Republicans kept control of Congress. Thanks to Democrats, taxpayers won’t have to pay up and blow up the debt
Source: Fortune ·
Democrats flipped at least six Senate seats and won the House, gaining power over Trump’s nominees and investigations but not his veto.
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Democrats will take full control of Congress in January after winning both the House and the Senate on Tuesday night, NBC News projected. Republicans had entered Election Day with a 53-47 Senate majority and a 219-214 House majority. It will be the first time in Trump’s second term that he hasn’t had full control of Congress. Since returning to the White House, he has dismantled federal agencies through the Department of Government Efficiency, imposed sweeping tariffs on his own authority and rescinded funding Congress had approved, while the Republican-controlled House and Senate mostly looked the other way, NBC reported. Trump responded on Truth Social: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!” The $5,000 promise In his closing speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday, Trump said he had kept every promise he made, then added: “I’ve actually kept far more promises than I made,” the Mirror reported. One of those promises was cash. At the…
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