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.
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.
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.
Huh, I would have thought the 1st priority would be shutting down ICE, releasing everyone and closing the concentration camps. Then the 2nd priority would be getting the people back who were sent to random countries they’ve never visited before.
For reelection in Kansas you probably would be advised to take this stance.
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?
If it walks like an enemy of the people, and quacks like an enemy of the people…
Trump somehow manages to have like 10 different obscenities and acts of corruption running simultaneously, but 54 senators can figure out how to pursue two goals at once amongst them.
Imagine caring if this fucking guy ends up being disappointed
Those things aren’t mutually exclusive! Do both of them!
Seriously! Stop presenting this as either/or. It’s BOTH. No more excuses!
Wait, having congress do two things at once? Preposterous!
tbf they’re going to have to work up to doing one thing at once
Seems like an awfully demanding schedule for Congress. They may have to start with doing half of a thing.
Is that like “Por que no los dos?”
Fuck off with this naiive bullshit.
They need to focus on cost of living and improving the lives of the average American first and foremost.
Literally everything else is secondary and only possible if they do the first. This naiive we can do it all bullshit is why Democrats have repeatedly lost over the past several decades. It’s so fucking frustrating to watch people on the left learn literally zero lessons and keep pursuing secondary bullshit as if it’s a primary concern for anyone but themselves.
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. When you’re bleeding out, stop the bleeding. Only then can you focus on healing. If you try to heal the damage done without stopping the cause of the damage you won’t get very far, chasing mess after mess.
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.
They should wait till he’s out of office for the charge though.
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.
Because the American politics system with four fucking elected bodies, is dumb as shit and literally intentionally designed to make government ineffective.
An elected Senate and an elected House makes zero fucking sense. You just roadblock yourself constantly. The president being elected separately from either also makes no fucking sense.
And then the fact that your judiciary is like half elected is the most nonsense fucking bullshit on the planet.
Your system of government is not built or designed to be effective.
It’s really strange, we pay these people to act as our representatives full time
The amount you pay them in taxes is pocket change compared to what they get from the ruling class to not do that.
Shut the fuck up with this meaningless platitude.
Because, no, no they do not.
This kind of idealistic meaningless bullshit is why Republicans win elections and Democrats don’t.
If they want to win the 2028 election, they need to walk, i.e. continue to drive down cost of living for the average American. Full stop. That’s all they need to do.
Anything else they do, whether that’s chew gum or whatever inane metaphor you want to use, can only come after they walk.
Imagine if people could do 2 things at once. What a world we would live in, if that was true.
Yeah, but this is 54-56 senators and 250+ representatives. They can’t possibly do 2 things different things amongst all of them.
Does the American public have the attention to pay attention to two things at once? No.
Do you not remember that Trump was impeached and didn’t move the voting needle one iota? The American public does not care about anything other than their pocket book.
Didn’t move the voting needle, one iota, did it? Because as I recall, he lost the next election.
And won the one after that.
That’s not moving the needle, that’s shifting the goalposts
Lol, no it’s not.
You interpreted my comment as focusing exclusively on the single next presidential election, while I always meant the bigger picture.
The right wing and swing voters in America by and large did not care about impeachment. They voted in maga republicans after maga republican, and not only returned him to power, but also elected a majority Republican Senate and House that loudly and enthusiastically endorsed him.
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.
Check his hard drives
And get his Grok history from Musk
Jesus, I thought he was saying because we should focus on getting him to The Hague.
What a jerk.
You have to stop trump from stealing the money before any will be spent to the benefit of the people.
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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.
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.
The bigger priority for me…is ‘please help us with the cost of living
Trump caused the higher cost of living, and he did it illegally. Started an illegal war and imposed illegal tariffs. Holding him accountable needs to be our highest priority, so that this shit can’t happen again.
