民主党领导层承诺，在中期选举后将把重点放在生活成本和问责上。此次中期选举中，民主党在国会两院的胜利超出预期。该党在众议院赢得的席位多于预测——“多数优势足够大，可以轻松掌控局面并约束躁动不安的进步派阵营，”Semafor的尼古拉斯·吴写道——而其在众议院的推定领导人表示，他将重点推动对政府涉嫌腐败的调查，以及生活成本问题。
Democratic party leadership pledged to focus on affordability and accountability following midterm elections that left them with bigger-than-expected victories in both houses of Congress. The party won more seats than predicted in the House — “a majority big enough to manage comfortably and contain a restive progressive wing,” Semafor’s Nicholas Wu wrote — and its presumptive leader in the lower chamber said he would focus on investigations into alleged government corruption, as well as cost-of-living concerns.
与此同时，共和党正在应对一位资深人物所称的“一代人的溃败”，这可能使他们在未来数年处于参议院少数党地位，并使特朗普政府无法做出关键的司法或内阁任命，而这两类任命都需要参议院确认。
Republicans, meanwhile, were grappling with what one senior figure called “a generational wipeout” that potentially leaves them in the Senate minority for years to come, and the Trump administration unable to make key judicial or cabinet appointments, both of which need confirmation in the upper chamber.
