Comment on Can anyone explain what the midterms means? Eg how it changes the power, how much it restricts Trump etc

disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

In the US, you need a majority to win a vote, but you need 60 seats to pass a filibuster. We didn’t get 60 seats, so nothing is getting passed unless Republicans agreed with it.

That means we can stop Republicans from passing disgusting bills, but we won’t be able to eg. abolish IC or fix the department of education.

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