民主党预计将在选举日大获全胜，但他们内部已就如何大力追究特朗普总统所谓的滥用职权和腐败问题爆发分歧。
Democrats are expecting to win big on Election Day, but disagreements are already erupting among them over how aggressively to target President Trump for what they say are abuses of power and corruption.
民主党议员和策略师在是否推动对特朗普发起另一次弹劾的问题上存在分歧。
Democratic lawmakers and strategists are divided over whether to push another impeachment against Trump.
参议员和众议院领袖普遍反对推进对特朗普的第三次弹劾，因为这在参议院几乎不可能凑齐67票——即定罪所需的票数。
Senators and leaders in the House are generally opposed to advancing a third impeachment of Trump that has virtually no chance of picking up 67 votes in the Senate — the number of votes needed to convict.
一位资深参议院民主党助手警告称，在2020年和2021年的弹劾努力未能在政治上影响特朗普后，参议院几乎没有“意愿”举行第三次特朗普弹劾审判。
A senior Senate Democratic aide warned there is little “appetite” for holding a third Trump impeachment trial in the Senate, after previous impeachment efforts in 2020 and 2021 failed to impact Trump politically.
据民主党策略师和助手透露，民主党一致认为明年需要对特朗普及其盟友进行调查以追究其责任，但对于优先调查什么几乎没有共识。
Democrats agree there need to be investigations of Trump and his allies next year to hold them to account, but there is little consensus over what to prioritize, according to Democratic strategists and aides.
但一些资深议员警告称，该党不能过度纠缠于追查总统和政府的不当行为，以免陷入多线作战或忽视解决高物价和结束伊朗战争——即今年大选的两大核心议题。
But some senior lawmakers are warning that the party can’t get so wrapped up in tracking down the misdeeds of the president and the administration that they get pulled into too many directions or lose sight of addressing high prices and ending the war in Iran — two of the top issues of this year’s election.
“我不认为我们可以无视这一点，”参议员谢尔登·怀特豪斯（民主党-罗德岛州）谈到调查特朗普政府涉嫌腐败的必要性时表示。
“I don’t think we can ignore it,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) of the need to investigate alleged corruption in the Trump administration.
“超过90%的选民认为政府已腐败。我们只需深思熟虑、循序善诱地推进调查工作，不让其分散我们解决美国家庭切身感受到的迫在眉睫的物价问题的精力，”他说。
“More than 90 percent of voters think that government has been corrupted. We just have to be thoughtful and strategic about where investigative work goes and not allow that to distract us from solving fairly immediate cost problems that American families feel,” he said.
如果民主党赢得参议院控制权，怀特豪斯将出任实权派的参议院司法委员会主席。
Whitehouse would become chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee if Democrats win control of the Senate.
为了防止他们期盼已久的众议院新多数派地位——以及可能获得的参议院多数派地位——陷入仅围绕已发生之事与特朗普进行纯粹党派斗争的泥沼，国会民主党领袖正在为其新多数派上任后的前100小时、前100天和第一年制定积极议程，知情人士透露了内部讨论情况。然而，民主党议员们想要对特朗普进行报复的愿望依然强烈。
To keep their hoped-for new House majority — and possible Senate majority — from getting sucked into solely partisan battles with Trump over what has already transpired, Democratic leaders in Congress are mapping out positive agendas for the first 100 hours, the first 100 days and the first year of their new majorities, according to sources familiar with internal discussions. Yet the desire among Democratic lawmakers to inflict retribution on Trump is strong.
一些人希望深入调查杰弗里·爱泼斯坦性贩运丑闻，探究司法部是否因扣留或不当编辑文件而违反了《爱泼斯坦档案透明法案》。
Some want to delve further into the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal to probe whether the Justice Department violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act by withholding or improperly redacting documents.
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（民主党-纽约州），如果民主党夺回参议院控制权，他将重回多数党领袖职位，他在2月成立了一个特别参议院工作组，旨在挖掘特朗普政府司法部向公众隐瞒的爱泼斯坦相关信息。
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who would return to the role of majority leader if Democrats capture the Senate, created a special Senate working group in February to plumb Epstein-related information held back from the public by the Trump Justice Department.
“我们要求司法部和联邦调查局保存幕后发生之事的记录。我们想知道是谁参与了隐瞒真相的决定，”他宣称。
“We are demanding that the Department of Justice and the FBI preserve records on what transpired behind the scenes. We want to know who was involved in the decision to hide the truth,” he declared.
其他民主党人则希望优先调查国防部以及与小唐纳德·特朗普有关的利润丰厚合同的授予情况。
Other Democrats want to prioritize investigations of the Defense Department and the awarding of lucrative contracts linked to Donald Trump Jr.
参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（民主党-马萨诸塞州）、安迪·金（民主党-新泽西州）和理查德·布卢门撒尔（民主党-康涅狄格州）今年早些时候致信国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯，要求提供关于五角大楼向“与总统儿子有关联”且可能存在“利益冲突”的公司提供贷款和合同的决策信息。一些民主党人正在推动调查特朗普家族在加密货币行业的大规模投资、总统赦免币安创始人兼前首席执行官赵长鹏（他已认罪违反洗钱法），以及加密货币投资是否为外国势力影响总统提供了渠道。
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth earlier this year demanding information about decisions at the Pentagon to give loans and contracts to companies “associated with the president’s son” that may have had “conflicts of interest.”Some Democrats are pushing for investigations into the Trump family’s massive investments in the crypto industry, the president’s pardon of Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded guilty to violating money laundering law, and whether crypto investments provided an avenue for foreign interests to influence the president.
“我们将不得不进行大量的监督工作，因为这个政府存在猖獗的腐败，我们需要彻查到底，”参议员克里斯·墨菲（民主党-康涅狄格州）说。
“We’re going to have to do voluminous oversight work because there is rampant corruption in this administration, and we need to get to the bottom of it,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).
一些民主党人希望更深入地调查特朗普的赦免记录，并审查富有个人和家族为寻求特赦而作出的捐款。
Some Democrats want to investigate Trump’s pardon record more closely and scrutinize donations that wealthy individuals and families made in hopes of receiving clemency.
《纽约时报》报道称，特朗普前律师之一阿丽娜·哈巴·米尔德龙赚取了5000万美元，帮助一名富有的委内瑞拉家族成员获得特赦，以及履行其他职责。
The New York Times reported that Alina Habba Mildron, one of Trump’s former lawyers, earned $50 million to help secure a pardon for the member of a wealthy Venezuelan family, among other duties.
一位民主党策略师兼前众议院领导层助手表示，当民主党在1月夺回议长权杖时，民主党领导层正在审视一系列广泛的问题进行调查。
A Democratic strategist and former House leadership aide said that Democratic leaders are looking at a wide array of issues to investigate when they take back the Speaker’s gavel in January.
“从美国企业界及其与特朗普政府的关系、爱泼斯坦、移民，等等，”这位策略师说，并指出众议员罗伯特·加西亚（民主党-加利福尼亚州）将接任众议院监督委员会主席，他一直直言不讳地主张调查移民与海关执法局（ICE）拘留设施的状况以及移民执法活动的总体情况。
“Everything from corporate America and their ties to the Trump administration, Epstein, immigration,” said the strategist, noting that Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), who would take over as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has been outspoken about investigating conditions at Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities and immigration enforcement activities more generally.
“他们将花时间审视各种问题，”这位策略师补充道，并指出民主党在中期选举中“以负担得起和反腐败为竞选纲领”。
“They’re going to spend their time looking at a variety of issues,” the strategist added, noting that Democrats are “running on affordability and corruption” in the midterm election.
这位与众议院关系密切的民主党策略师表示，众议院民主党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（民主党-纽约州）的领导团队几乎没有意愿推动另一项弹劾程序，尽管民主党党团中有普通议员希望这样做。
The House-aligned Democratic strategist said there’s little desire among House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) leadership team to move toward another impeachment proceeding, even though there are rank-and-file members in the Democratic caucus who want to.
“我现在就告诉你，我没听说过弹劾，不是针对特朗普的，”消息人士说。
“I’ll tell you right now that I have not heard about impeachment, not for Trump,” the source said.
这位策略师表示，民主党领导层转而关注一种低调的策略，即通过监督听证会牵制内阁部长和其他高级官员，从而阻碍特朗普政府。
The strategist said that Democratic leaders instead are eyeing a lower-key strategy to hamstring the Trump administration by tying up Cabinet and other senior officials in oversight hearings.
“这就是他们当选的目的，就是要制约特朗普，并确保他们努力推动部分议程获得通过并签署成法，”这位策略师说。
“That’s what they’re elected to do, to constrain Trump and to ensure that they try to get some of their agenda passed and signed into law,” the strategist said.
除了调查之外，如果民主党赢得参议院控制权，他们正威胁要让特朗普向联邦司法系统和行政部门提名人选变得困难得多。
Beyond investigations, Democrats are threatening to make it much tougher for Trump to make appointments to the federal judiciary and the executive branch if they win control of the Senate.
他们还威胁要切断对伊朗战争的资金支持，如果特朗普不迅速结束这场冲突的话。
And they’re threatened to cut off funding for the war with Iran if Trump doesn’t bring the conflict to a swift conclusion.
参议员布莱恩·沙茨（民主党-夏威夷州），他将成为下一任民主党党鞭，已警告称，如果战争拖延下去，要获得两党多数票通过授权和资助五角大楼的法案将“极其困难”。
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), who is set to become the next Democratic whip, has warned that getting bipartisan majorities to vote for bills to authorize and fund the Pentagon will be “extremely difficult” if the war drags on.
然而，一些民主党人认为，特朗普仍需为试图推翻2020年总统大选结果，或在2021年卸任后处理机密文件不当并密谋妨碍司法公正（与这些文件有关）承担责任。
Some Democrats, however, argue that Trump still needs to face accountability for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election or for mishandling classified documents and conspiring to obstruct justice related to those documents after leaving office in 2021.
“唐纳德·特朗普涉嫌的罪行仍未得到伸张正义。针对这些涉嫌罪行——它们极其严重，却在刑事司法过程中途被叫停——迄今仍未实现正义，”参议院司法委员会成员布卢门撒尔说。“我仍然觉得需要有所清算，”他说。
“Donald Trump’s alleged crimes still have not been given justice. There’s been no justice yet for these alleged crimes, which are just so deeply serious, and were stopped midway in the criminal justice process,” said Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I still feel there needs to be some reckoning,” he said.
如果民主党本周赢得参议院控制权，布卢门撒尔将有望接任参议院常设调查小组委员会主席。
Blumenthal would be poised to take over as chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations if Democrats win control of the Senate this week.
其他民主党人表示，他们想调查过去20个月来特朗普政府与富有的特殊利益集团之间所谓的“腐败关系”。
Other Democrats say they want to investigate what they say has been a “corrupt relationship” between the Trump administration and wealthy special interests over the past 20 months.
墨菲说，他想进一步了解“R.J.雷诺兹公司向政府捐款800万美元，一周后调味电子烟就被合法化供未成年人使用一事”。“我们应该彻查这个国家企业与特朗普政府之间存在的腐败关系，”他说。
Murphy says he wants to know more about “an $8 million donation made by RJ Reynolds to the administration that resulted one week later in flavored vapes being made legal for kids.”“We should get to the bottom of the corrupt relationship that exists between corporations in this country and the Trump administration,” he said.