Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher predicted that Democratic lawmakers will ignore affordability as they seek to issue various subpoenas related to the Trump administration.
The Democratic Party is vying to retake the House of Representatives in the midterm elections and can be expected to subpoena major corporations if they do so, Doescher asserts. The subpoena list includes law firms that signed deals with President Donald Trump, media giants, and donors to the White House ballroom, according to a report from Axios.
Doescher said she’s “glad” Democrats are “making clear” they won’t prioritize affordability, which she says is “the number one issue to voters.”
“They could use the opportunity to say, ‘Well, if we take the House, we’re going to try and pass some of our affordability, anti-inflation bills,’” Doescher said on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday. “Nope, they just want to go after people who donated to a ballroom, a ballroom that — let’s not forget — the Obama administration knew had to be built, right?”
Doescher also said Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, has “already laid out the path” on how to combat these legal battles, which is to “pardon everyone preemptively.” Some of Biden’s pardon recipients in his final weeks in office included his son, Hunter Biden, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director.
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo and Doescher agreed that voters want “regular order.”
“They don’t like seeing these kangaroo courts and all of this lawfare, and arguably, if you look at the polling, the moment that the Republican primary in 2024 was cooked for anyone not named Donald Trump was after the Mar-a-Lago raid because Americans do not like the weaponization of the Justice Department for political malfeasance, right?” Doescher said.
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Trump is facing his lowest approval rating across both terms in the latest Fox News polling, with 59% disapproval and 41% approval. The same data found the president is facing a near-identical level of disapproval, 58%, of the United States’s involvement in Iran.
Washington Examiner Executive Editor Bob Cusack said Republicans are facing a “tough election” in the November midterms and are likely to get “the majority of the blame” from the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown. He added that while Democrats don’t appear to have a clear agenda at this time, a party doesn’t need one in a midterm election cycle and only has to be “the opposition party.”