众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（民主党-纽约州）在新闻发布会上发言，众议院少数党党鞭凯瑟琳·克拉克（民主党-马萨诸塞州）和众议院民主党核心小组主席皮特·阿吉拉尔（民主党-加利福尼亚州）在旁聆听。摄于2026年11月4日，华盛顿特区民主党众议院竞选委员会总部。
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks as House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., look on during a press conference at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee headquarters on Nov. 4, 2026 in Washington, D.C.
凯文·迪奇/盖蒂图片社 一年多来，民主党在每一个机会上都反复强调同一个信息：让民主党掌权，国会就会采取行动降低成本、铲除腐败。
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images For more than a year, Democrats hammered one message at every opportunity: put Democrats in charge, and Congress will take action to lower costs and stamp out corruption.
随着民主党在选举中大败共和党，即将控制众议院和参议院，民主党很快将有机会兑现承诺。
Democrats will soon have that chance when they take control of the House and the Senate after a rout of Republicans at the ballot box.
现在，民主党必须团结一个有时意见不一的核心小组，围绕兑现这一核心竞选承诺制定行动计划。
Now Democrats have to unite a sometimes fractious caucus around a game plan for fulfilling that central campaign promise.
首个100小时 民主党表示，在首个100小时内，他们希望恢复《平价医疗法案》增强版医保补贴，并扭转共和党去年通过的《一个宏伟美好的法案》中即将生效的医疗补助削减措施。
The first 100 hours Democrats say that in the first hundred hours, they want to restore enhanced Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies and reverse Medicaid cuts Republicans passed last year in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that are about to take effect.
他们还希望重申国会对关税的权力，并试图通过推动战争权力决议的新表决，迫使伊朗战争结束。这些是民主党几乎完全一致的优先事项。尽管以可观优势控制两院，民主党仍将在分裂政府的框架内运作。
They also want to reassert Congress' authority over tariffs and try to force an end to the Iran war by bringing new votes on war powers resolutions. These are priorities on which Democrats have near-total agreement. Despite controlling both chambers with substantial margins, Democrats will still be operating in the confines of divided government.
大多数立法在参议院仍需60票才能终结冗长辩论并通过，而特朗普总统在承诺做“否决先生”和表示愿意与民主党合作之间反复摇摆。
Most legislation still needs 60 votes to avoid a filibuster to pass the Senate, and President Trump has vacillated between promising to be "Mr. Veto," and saying he is open to working with Democrats.
“我希望我们能着手立法工作，”密歇根州民主党籍当选参议员阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德上周在接受采访时表示。“如果特朗普否决，那是他的责任。但我认为你会看到许多共和党人重新考虑，他们是否真的想让这些医疗补助削减措施生效。”国会还有其他工具，比如通过拨款程序扣留战争资金，这是必须通过的立法，尽管民主党现在掌握主导权，但仍需要跨党派妥协，布鲁金斯学会国会专家莫莉·雷诺兹表示。
"I want us to get to the work of passing legislation," Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senator-Elect from Michigan, said in an interview last week. "If Trump vetoes that, it's on him. But I think you're going to see a whole lot of Republicans thinking twice about whether they want these Medicaid cuts for example to go through." Congress has other tools, like withholding funding for the war through the appropriations process, must-pass legislation that will require some compromise across the aisle despite Democrats now being in the driver's seat, says Molly Reynolds, an expert on Congress at the Brookings Institution.
“但当你遇到这种大选浪潮时，另一党失去的席位往往往往是该党较为温和的那一端，”她说。“这使你拥有了庞大的民主党多数，但也留下了一个相对更保守的共和党党团。”对于现在因拥有传票权力而气势大增的民主党人来说，调查也将成为重点。
"But when you have a wave election like this, the seats in the other party that get taken out often tend to be the more moderate end of that party," she says. "And so that leaves you with a large Democratic majority, but also a comparatively more conservative Republican conference." Investigations will also be a major focus for Democrats now emboldened by subpoena power.
众议院监督委员会首席民主党人、加利福尼亚州众议员罗伯特·加西亚在选举之夜发布了一份仅两个单词的声明，针对特朗普及其圈子：“找律师吧。”大胆、戏剧性的变革预计将出任下一任众议院议长的哈基姆·杰弗里斯（民主党-纽约州）周三对记者表示，民主党将带来“大胆、戏剧性的变革”。这具体是什么样子仍在探索中。
The top Democrat on the House Oversight committee, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., released a two-word statement on election night directed at Trump and his orbit: "Lawyer up." Bold, dramatic change The next likely House Speaker, Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., told reporters on Wednesday that Democrats will usher in "bold, dramatic change." What exactly that looks like is a work in progress.
今年秋天，众议院民主党人组建了工作小组，研究如何应对汽油和食品杂货、公用事业、住房及护理等方面的成本。每个小组由两名民主党人共同领导，一名来自党内进步派，另一名则更偏向中间。
This fall, House Democrats organized working groups to figure out how to address the costs of gas and groceries, utilities, housing and caregiving. Each is helmed by two Democrats, one from the progressive wing of the party, the other more to the center.
“等我们回来后，当然在新一届国会里，我们将进行一次家庭式的谈话，探讨除了我们已知必须立即采取的行动外，解决医疗成本的最佳途径是什么，”杰弗里斯在被问及应对医疗成本的不同方法时对记者表示。
"We'll have a family conversation when we get back, and certainly in the new Congress, about what's the best way to do that beyond what we know we need to do immediately," Jeffries told reporters when asked about different approaches to addressing health care costs.
一些新当选的民主党人以推动“全民医保”作为竞选承诺。另一些人则承诺采取更渐进的步骤，扩大医疗保险覆盖面并降低成本。关于即将到来的辩论的迹象，甚至在大选前就已出现。
Some newly-elected Democrats ran on a pledge to press for Medicare for All. Others ran promising more gradual steps to expand access to health insurance and cut costs. Hints of the coming debate appeared even before the election.
参议院民主党第三号人物、夏威夷州参议员布莱恩·沙茨对CNN表示：“如果我们想更有抱负，如果我们想做出更大胆的政策改变……那是2028年的事。现在关键在于稳定国家本身。” 众议院进步派核心小组主席、得克萨斯州众议员格雷格·卡萨尔周三对记者说：“没人认为这次大选是关于回归现状，或是做一个在边缘修修补补、胆小怕事的律师党。”传递的都是同一个信息？本周，民主党高层正在淡化这种张力。
Number three Senate Democrat Brian Schatz of Hawaii, told CNN, "If we want to be more aspirational, if we want to make more bold policy changes … that's for 2028. Right now it's about stabilizing the country itself." "Nobody thinks this election was about going back to the status quo or being the party of nervous lawyers that tinkers around the edges," Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters on Wednesday. All the same message? Top Democrats this week are downplaying that tension.
参议院少数党领袖、纽约州参议员查克·舒默对记者说：“如果你听听我们的候选人怎么说，无论他们是进步派还是较为温和派，他们都在说同样的话。你在缅因州谈论它的方式不同于在堪萨斯州，但传递的都是同一个信息。” 在众议院和参议院，新多数党的很大一部分将由较为温和的民主党人组成，他们翻转了倾向保守的选区和传统红州，如爱荷华州、堪萨斯州和南卡罗来纳州。一批新的进步派也准备进入国会，其中一些人同样翻转了共和党把持的席位。
"If you listened to our candidates, whether they were progressive or more moderate, they were saying the same things," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters. "You talk about it in Maine differently than you talk about it in Kansas, but it was all the same message." In the House and the Senate, a large chunk of the new majorities will be made up of more moderate Democrats who flipped conservative-leaning districts and traditionally red states, like Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina. A new class of progressives is also preparing to join Congress, some who also flipped Republican-held seats.
刚从密歇根州一个共和党把持的关键摇摆选区当选国会议员的威尔·劳伦斯表示，除了解决成本和腐败问题，各政治光谱的选民都希望看到采取行动，不仅要结束伊朗战争，还要停止纳税人的钱流向以色列。
Will Lawrence, just elected to Congress from a Republican-held battleground district in Michigan, says in addition to tackling costs and corruption, voters across the political spectrum want to see action not only to end the war in Iran, but also to halt tax dollars going to Israel.
“民众绝望且渴望变革，”劳伦斯周三对记者说。“他们不想看到这种事花我们的钱、用我们的武器发生。” 进步派将议程向左推动的能力将比他们最初预期的更受限，因为民主党的多数优势不会微弱。
"People are desperate and hungry for change," Lawrence told reporters on Wednesday. "They don't want to see this happening on our dime and with our weaponry." The ability of progressives to move the agenda to the left will be more limited than they may have initially anticipated because the Democratic majorities will not be narrow.
“我们在正确的选区、正确的时间推出了正确的候选人，”亚利桑那州民主党众议员格雷格·斯坦顿周三对记者说。他是中间派“新民主党联盟”竞选机构的主席。“[杰弗里斯] 拥有领导的灵活性。不再有关于利用议长职位施压的讨论。” 但进步派与温和派之间的鲜明界限也比过去不那么清晰了，因为一批新的民主党候选人将经济民粹主义的某些主张，与在移民、能源和社会问题等其他议题上相对温和的立场结合在了一起。
"We had the right candidates in the right districts at the right time," Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., who chairs the campaign arm of the centrist New Democrat Coalition, told reporters on Wednesday. "[Jeffries] has the flexibility to lead. No more discussion of leveraging the speaker." But the bright lines between progressives and moderates are also less defined than in the past, as a new crop of Democratic candidates weld together facets of economic populism with more moderate positions on other issues like immigration, energy and social issues.
例如，各派别的民主党人都希望国会着手管控人工智能和数据中心。
There are Democrats across the spectrum, for example, who want Congress to move on reigning in artificial intelligence and data centers.
这样一场民主党大获全胜的选举也将增加行动的压力，让选民对该党能迅速取得的成就抱有很高期望。
Such a sweeping wave election for Democrats will also amp up the pressure to act, giving voters high expectations about what the party will be able to accomplish quickly.
“我们不应过度承诺，以免兑现不足，”伊利诺伊州众议员布拉德·施奈德在接受采访时说。他是“新民主党核心小组”主席。
"We shouldn't overpromise at the risk of underdelivering," Illinois Rep. Brad Schneider, who chairs the New Democrats caucus, said in an interview.
正如密歇根州马科姆县的民主党本地活动人士乔尔·拉瑟福德今夏在接受美国国家公共电台（NPR）采访时所说：“如果民主党，但愿能，拿下参议院和众议院，他们最好有所作为，好吗？民众最好能看到一些真正的变革。” 拉瑟福德说，如果做不到，民主党在2028年提名谁竞选总统都无所谓了，因为要让他们当选将很难推销。2026年中期选举
As Joel Rutherford, a local Democratic activist in Macomb County, Michigan told NPR in an interview over the summer, "If the Democrats, hopefully, take the Senate and take the House, they better do something, OK? People better see some real change." Rutherford said if they don't, it won't matter who Democrats nominate for president in 2028 because getting them elected will be a tough sell. 2026 midterms