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.
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.