US Mid Term Elections mark the beginning of sleepless nights for Trump

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Donald Trump is probably the world’s saddest President today after Democrats seized control of the lower house of Congress in America’s midterm elections.

Since his election in 2016, Trump has enjoyed an easy ride having Republican dominance of both houses of Congress since but not anymore.

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With the results from what is seen as a historic US mid term election, a Democratic majority in the lower chamber for the first time in eight years will restrict his ability to steer his programme through Congress. Democrats will now be able to block legislation, launch investigations into Mr Trump’s administration and business affairs, from tax returns to potential conflicts of interest and possibly push for Trump’s impeachment.

With his defeat in the House of Representatives, Democrats have ended two years of the Republican party’s determined refusal to conduct any meaningful oversight of his administration.

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Among all the Democratic wins, the election of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib into Congress is what will probably infuriate President Trump the most.

The two are not just women in Congress, but women who Trump has referred to as ‘immigrants.’

Ilhan Omar became the first ever Muslim woman and first Somali-American in Congress in Minnesota while Rashida Tlaib was also elected as the first Muslim woman and first Palestinian-American in Congress in Michigan.

Nobody could have prepared President Donald Trump for the reality of a hijab-wearing Muslim woman in office.

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The election of Ilhan and Rashida has come as a blow to President Trump who recently announced that he would bring to an end the right to citizenship for children born to non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants on US soil.

“It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t. You can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive order,” Trump said in an interview with Axios.

Both Rashida and Omar have positioned themselves as opposition to President Donald Trump and his Republican Party and have strongly opposed Trump’s restrictive immigration policies fighting for the abolishment of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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As the news of their win was not enough pain for Trump, Ilhan, the former Daadab refugee now member of Congress, added salt to injury in her victory speech when she said,

“Here in Minnesota, we don’t only welcome immigrants; we send them to Washington.”

 

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