Republicans routed as Democrats gain powerful new leverage over Trump for remainder of his presidency

Democrats have regained control of the US Senate, routing Republicans nationwide with historic victories that will give them powerful new leverage over Donald Trump for the remainder of his presidency.

Democrats will soon have the ability to hold up not just Trump’s legislative agenda, but also any appointments he makes to his cabinet or the federal judiciary – including the supreme court, where conservatives have a 6-3 majority.

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    Hey, you can’t scapegoat leopold and forget that Belgium held on to and continued to exploit congo till the 60s. That’s less than a hundred years ago, your grandad was probably alive then.

    Oh and Belgium got their first democratically elected leader lubumba assassinated. And you still regularly interfere in their politics.