Trump undermined antiwar vows in first year. Will Democrats seize on this?
Al Jazeera
Party leaders vow to hammer Trump on affordability in months ahead, with Venezuela, Greenland their latest cudgels.
Washington, DC – One year into US President Donald Trump’s second term in office, Democrats hope the Republican president’s campaign pledges – vows to end foreign wars and pivot to “America First” – are coming back to haunt him.
Leaders of the party have long hammered affordability as a key issue in the upcoming 2026 midterms in November, in which the opposition party hopes to reclaim both chambers of Congress from Republicans and, in turn, regain the ability to check the president’s expansive use of executive power.
Trump’s military pressure campaign against Venezuela, culminating, to date, in the extraordinary abduction of Nicolas Maduro on January 3, as well as his increasingly caustic effort to take control of Greenland – an autonomous territory of Denmark – have emerged as powerful cudgels on the issue.
Speaking at a news conference in the wake of the Maduro operation, Chuck Schumer, the 75-year-old top Democrat in the Senate, adopted decidedly Trumpian language as he promised “relentless” messaging on affordability in the year ahead.
He added, “We Democrats are fighting to prevent military adventurism in Venezuela and other countries and endless wars.”
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