Democrats may not be in the mood to compromise after their midterm election victories Tuesday night. Democrats’ overwhelming takeover of both the House and Senate will trigger a shot clock on the Republican governing trifecta, setting up a tense post-election session on Capitol Hill.

Lawmakers will return to Washington next week for what’s known as the lame-duck session, where they’ll begin sorting through a pile of must-pass legislative business, including funding the government to avoid a pre-holiday shutdown and passing the annual defense authorization bill.

Republicans will have to prioritize what they want to accomplish in their waning days of congressional control, while Democrats have little incentive to help move GOP-led legislation after voters delivered a brutal rebuke of Republicans and the president on Tuesday night“We are in a stronger negotiating position” when Democrats takeover in January, Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar of Texas said in an interview Wednesday morning, adding, “we should not give the Republican majority a huge a chance to influence much more of what happens in this country, because their own Republican voters just told them that they have failed.”