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Democrats won control of the House on Tuesday night, NBC News and MS NOW projected. The win gives them limited power over President Donald Trump\u2019s agenda and much broader power to investigate the businesses his family runs.<\/p>\n
Democrats needed a net gain of just three seats, and they got there with wins in Republican-held suburban and swing districts. <\/p>\n
In New Jersey\u2019s 7th District, Democrat Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot, defeated Rep. Tom Kean Jr., CNN projected, and the AP also called the race. In Virginia\u2019s 2nd, former Rep. Elaine Luria flipped the seat held by Rep. Jen Kiggans, Decision Desk HQ projected. In Colorado\u2019s 8th, former state lawmaker Manny Rutinel flipped one of the toss-up seats after campaigning on lowering costs and opposing the administration\u2019s immigration crackdown. And in North Carolina\u2019s newly redrawn 11th, Democrat Jamie Ager defeated Republican Jennifer Balkcom. <\/p>\n
Democrats also held three Florida seats that Republicans had redrawn to flip. With races still being called, NBC\u2019s Decision Desk estimates Democrats will finish with about 248 seats, a 61-seat majority, while CNBC\u2019s election desk projects at least 235.<\/p>\n
Trump, who had urged supporters to treat the midterms as a referendum on his presidency, responded on Truth Social: \u201cI wasn\u2019t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!\u201d<\/p>\n
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, who will chair the House Oversight Committee in the new Congress, marked the win with a two-word message in a statement and on X: \u201cLawyer up.\u201d His office said he has vowed to take on what it called the \u201cTrump Crime Family,\u201d along with corporate corruption, abuses at the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, and the cover-up of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n
What Democrats can\u2019t do<\/p>\n
Democrats can now pass bills with a simple majority, but passing a bill in the House doesn\u2019t make it law. Trump has threatened to \u201cveto everything\u201d if Democrats win Congress, and overriding a veto takes two-thirds of both chambers. That\u2019s a margin Democrats won\u2019t have in either one.<\/p>\n
That limits what House Speaker-in-waiting Hakeem Jeffries can deliver on his four stated priorities: reversing Trump\u2019s Medicaid cuts, extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, restoring Congress\u2019s authority over tariffs and ending the war with Iran, NBC reported. Each would need Trump\u2019s signature or a veto-proof majority. What the House can do is refuse to pass Trump\u2019s priorities, including spending bills. That gives Democrats leverage in every budget fight for the next two years.<\/p>\n
What they can do<\/p>\n
Subpoenas don\u2019t need the president\u2019s signature. Committee control comes with the power to compel documents and testimony from the administration, and from private companies and individuals too.<\/p>\n
Garcia has said his panel will focus on \u201cTrump family corruption,\u201d including the president\u2019s cryptocurrency ventures, which have earned him more than $1 billion. He told Punchbowl News the committee will look at the family\u2019s crypto deals, Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s business dealings, and Trump family members like Jared Kushner \u201csitting on boards and getting contracts.\u201d He also promised \u201cquick action\u201d on alleged pay-to-play arrangements involving former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski. Garcia has said administration officials, including acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, could face subpoenas on \u201cday one\u201d of the Democratic majority.<\/p>\n
The businesses in line<\/p>\n
World Liberty Financial, the Trump family\u2019s crypto company, is likely to be first. Democrats have focused on an Emirati royal known as the \u201cSpy Sheikh,\u201d who bought a $500 million stake in the company last year, while it seeks a national bank charter that an arm of the Treasury Department must approve. House Democrats had already asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to investigate the deal. Until now, all they could do was ask.<\/p>\n
Democrats have also said they\u2019ll look at Trump\u2019s pardon of a Binance co-founder who helped the Trump family launch a stablecoin. Garcia has asked the Pentagon\u2019s inspector general to investigate whether companies that brought Eric Trump or Donald Trump Jr. into their ownership or onto their payroll were rewarded with defense contracts. Those companies have collected more than $725 million in loans, grants and awards since Trump took office, according to Oversight Democrats.<\/p>\n
The scrutiny could reach companies outside the Trump family. Corporate donors to Trump\u2019s White House ballroom and companies that did deals with Trump family members are expected to be among the first targets, with inquiries starting as early as February. Democrats expect the White House to resist, and plan to subpoena private entities with ties to Trump directly to get around it. In Trump\u2019s first term, the White House slow-walked document requests and claimed executive privilege, and that strategy could return.<\/p>\n
The White House has dismissed the plans. Democrats\u2019 \u201conly agenda is to continue their decade long witch hunt against President Trump,\u201d spokeswoman Lauren Bis told Newsweek before Election Day.<\/p>\n
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