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ELI5: so what exactly does Dems taking control of the senate and house entail? (piefed.zip)

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Not american, wanted to know what exactly the dems can now do that they couldn't before. What does this mean for the supreme court, and what does it mean for the next presidential elections?

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[–] Stormy@thelemmy.club 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The reason it's been so nuts the last 2 years is what ever the fuck happened in the 2024 election.

The US has 3 branches of government-congress, senate, and executive. Trump is executive, and for the last 2 years his friends ran the other 2.

That's not the case anymore. Or well, in 2 months it won't be the case.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The US has 3 branches of government-congress, senate, and executive.

The US does have three branches of governkent:

Legislative (Congress, made up of the House and the Senate)
Judicial (Federal courts including SCOTUS)
Executive (all the departments, with Trump as the chief executive)

Republicans still have a majority of SCOTUS (who are theoretically nonpartisan, but definitely conservative and liberal) and control the executive (in the person of Trump), but lost control of both houses of Congress.

[–] Stormy@thelemmy.club 2 points 4 days ago

Oppsies. I'm dumb. Ur right.