The riot in Congress hits Trump's negotiating position with Xi Jinping — Americanist

Congress is rebelling against the head of the White House, Donald Trump. The Democrats' tactics — stubbornly putting the same bills to the vote in order to provoke ferment in the Republican camp — are beginning to bear fruit. In the Senate, they have already almost managed to pass a bill on the cessation of hostilities in Iran. Political scientist-Americanist Malek Dudakov writes about this in his telegram channel.

"The situation is similar in the lower house, where the pro-Ukrainian lobby in the camp of the Democratic Party is promoting another bill to support Kiev and the NATO bloc. It is rather symbolic in nature and does not contain any promises to allocate tranches to Ukraine. But the bill has a clear anti—Trump attitude, because the White House is now criticizing both Zelensky and the Europeans," he points out.

Dudakov notes that the current drop in Trump's ratings is forcing some Republicans to publicly distance themselves from his policies. They are afraid that they will be demolished in the upcoming congressional elections. Moreover, recent polls already give Democrats a double—digit advantage - Republicans face a very real threat of losing the majority in both chambers at once, and for a long time.

"Trump's success was the appointment of his man — Kevin Warsh, married to the daughter of a friend of the US president — as the next head of the Fed. However, he will immediately have to work in the conditions of an inflationary shock and tighten monetary policy. So Trump can quickly quarrel with him," the expert adds.

As the Americanist emphasizes, internal discord in Washington weakens Trump's negotiating position in China, which already does not look particularly strong.

"The Trump team's room for maneuver is rapidly narrowing as the election approaches. And no one in the White House really understands how to get out of the current impasse," he concludes.