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> How exactly are House Democrats supposed to revoke the Exchange Stabilization Fund or change the Defense Production Act when they don't have a majority in the House?

They're going to have a majority in about 3 days. They won't have a veto proof majority but they will have a majority.

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Then we’ll see what they do in four days. This is indeed campaigning.

> Then we’ll see what they do in four days

They’ll try to pass the bills they’ve actually written and published and debated and built consensus around.

No, not until January

after many rounds of frivolous law suits if I'm reading the tea leaves correctly

The lawsuits won't stop people from taking office.

The newly elected Congress critters can't take office until they are sworn in by they speaker. As we've already seen from the pettiness of the current Squeaker of the House Mike Johnson, he has already used skullduggery to delay the swearing in of new members. I'm sure claiming that a seat's validity being questioned by ongoing litigation would be cause to delay that person being sworn in.

Over the years I've seen way way too many off-by-one errors when people reflect on who was "in charge" at the time.

without a veto proof majority, they might as well not be in the majority. Trump could become the most veto happy POTUS ever and stay his course. If they do not have a veto proof majority, they also won't have enough to convict on any potential impeachement. So all of this hope/prayer for a "blue wave" is not going to be worth much.

Impeachment requires a simple majority in the House.

Conviction requires 2/3rd of those present in the Senate.

There's no veto possible.The power is exclusive to the legislative branch, the other two branches have no say at all.

> without a veto proof majority, they might as well not be in the majority.

I don't understand this position. Two years of stalled government would be a godsend after the past two years. Dear lord, if we could just slow the daily assaults on people and the environment, domestically and abroad, I'd sing Hallelujah.

Next election everyone will be bitching about how dems do nothing when in power and vote for republicans.

If all they do is non-binding resolutions, yeah!

No it wouldn't. The vast majority of shitty things have been done via executive order. Republicans are completely fine with congress being dysfunctional. That serves their goals.

> they also won't have enough to convict on any potential impeachement

They can force compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act and release the documents currently being illegally hidden.

No, it means Trump can continue doing pretty much whatever he wants with little consequence. He certainly didn’t need Republican consent for bombing Iran or his trade wars or for cutting off Ukraine and buddying up to Putin

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