After this years Senate and House of Representatives election, the rooms of these chambers will have a majority of Republicans
With the current 2014 elections occurring, it is starting to seem as though Republicans are going to take the majority in the House and the Senate while Democrat president Obama continues in his position for his second term in office. Could this cause problems within the government?
The Republicans are maintaining a clear majority over the Democrats in both Congress positions. In the Senate, Republicans are leading by six, and in the House, by sixty-five. This means that the Democrats have lost previously held positions in every government category.
Majorities in the government do tend to fluctuate and change over time, but it may turn out to be an uncomfortable and unproductive situation with a Democratic president and a Republican majority in Congress. Both the president and Congress have already made it clear that tensions are high, although they tried to settle some of these tensions over lunch shortly after the elections.
Before going to lunch with both Democratic and Republican Senators as well as the vice president, Obama made a statement saying, “I’m not going to judge ideas based on whether or not they’re Democratic or Republican, I’m going to judge them based on whether or not they work.”
Even with the hope of lesser tensions, there is not much promise of this as Republicans are already starting to instigate, threatening to cut Obamacare, one of Obama’s most prized pieces of legislation.
Although Republicans now have the majority in the Senate, they do not have to required sixty to override his veto, making this threat almost impossible. However, the threat to cut Obamacare is a clear portrayal of the strained relationship between the Republican party in Congress and the Democratic party in the presidency.