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.
my dude, learn to walk AND chew gum.
God, are centrist Democrats so completely inept that they can’t do more than one thing at a time?
No. This isn’t an oopsie.
Not this time nor the last 7500.
I can kinda see where he’s coming from (assuming he’s being sincere).
However, congress can focus on 2 things at once. They can and should do both.
Cool, fucking throw him up against his beloved firing squad and call it a day then do something beneficial for the general populace.
Congress is supposed to make laws; they aren’t a version of Law & Order
The thing to remember is that Congressional investigations in both houses take place in committee, not on the floor, and that committee assignments are often long-term commitments, fought over and worked toward over multiple terms, with the most powerful ones being given to people who have worked on them longest.
What this guy is asserting doesn’t matter and won’t change anything. It’s hot air. He’s a new senator who will not get especially powerful committee assignments, and after this he sure as fuck won’t get anywhere near investigations.
But I will add, this guy is a reminder of why Schumer and Jeffries need to go: if you can’t achieve, you can often block. This guy can’t block shit, especially if he gets assigned to something like the committee on office trash collection. But Schumer and Jeffries can, especially Schumer. They need to go.
If you’re interested, the REAL committee to watch is House Oversight – the one already working the Epstein files investigation in spite of ongoing Republican efforts to shut it down and protect the perps – and the rep who will now be chair, Robert Garcia of California, is one of the reps who was telling Republicans on election night, “Lawyer up.” He’s already announced the investigations he will be prioritizing and has been working on all along as the ranking (minority) member: he’s hitting the ground running. And unlike the chair now, he’s not afraid of applying actual consequences. I suspect we might even get to see some action out of the Sergeant at Arms.
We can, and will, do many things at once. It’s not that hard. Bad actors just made it seem that way.
I don’t see why they can’t do multiple things at the same time.
For fucks sake. They get paid quite a lot and have exceptionally good benefits compared to the rest of us.
Plus all the stocks, bribes, and so on.
Lazy bastards.
It’s been just a week, and already 3 democrats are publicly opposing any accountability for republicans, one of which is fucking Kamala Harris.
It’s almost as if… No, it can’t be. It can’t, right?
You have to stop trump from stealing the money before any will be spent to the benefit of the people.
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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.
Check his hard drives
Why not both? There’s a couple of hundred of you to go around this time …
Yeah, this is part of why I’ve been saying that it’s a silly and naive fantasy to think Trump would ever see significant legal consequences for his actions. Has been since day 1.
The Democrats’ mandate, especially Democrats like Hamilton who won in a red state, is to end the war and lower gas prices. Trump did plenty of corrupt and illegal shit in his first term, Kansas still voted for him overwhelmingly three times. It’s not the voters’ priority. And the reason they can’t “do both at the same time” is because it’s not a question of having the “time” to do it, but having the political will. Hamilton would presumably like to have a chance a reelection, and going hard after Republicans is not going to appeal to Kansas voters. And you don’t just need people like Hamilton, you’d need Republicans to defect and turn against their own party.
This isn’t the first time it’s played out this way, and I can only hope that this latest example helps people to see the system more clearly for what it is.
GODDAMMIT I KNEW IT
Good.
He’s 100% right. You already fucking impeached Trump and no one cares. Why the fuck are you still focusing on this?
Get the leftist politicians who have a reasonable chance of winning elected to enact leftist policies to better people’s lives. That should 100% be your focus.
Literally everything else is secondary.
they have little change of getting any legislation past Trump’s veto unless they can talk a few Republican’s into it.
They have very little chance of getting enough Republican Senators onside if the House impeaches him… again.
lot of jawboning ahead
