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7 outlets · filed 3 November 2026

What Democrats can and can't do with their new power after taking Congress

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Democrats can vote legislation through. But Trump still has veto power.

PBS NewsHour

What the coverage shows

All of the outlets frame the story as Democrats winning Congress and Trump taking a rebuke, with several, including the Los Angeles Times, PBS NewsHour and the Associated Press, explicitly using that language. The main differences are in emphasis: BBC News and NBC News focus on what Democrats can do with their new power and the veto clash ahead, while The Hill’s later piece is about Trump’s post-midterm remarks and the other Hill item quotes DeSantis calling the results a rebuke. Reuters is the only outlet in this set to foreground a Republican revolt against Trump.

Written by Crossfiled from the 8 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.

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