Democrats between opening Trump administration files and responding to Americans' living demands

Following their gains in the midterm elections, Democrats quickly signaled plans to open investigations and issue subpoenas to officials and associates of President Donald Trump, leveraging their regained control of the House of Representatives, according to a report by Axios. The files the Democratic Party intends to investigate include Trump family business activities, corruption suspicions related to government contracts, as well as alleged abuses by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the case of businessman Jeffrey Epstein, and the possibility of investigating the government efficiency initiative linked to Elon Musk. However, Democratic leadership stressed that voters do not want political revenge but rather solutions to the rising cost of living. House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Americans want the Democratic Party to take steps that improve their situation, alongside holding what he described as unprecedented corruption in the administration. According to a poll by the Associated Press, about half of voters considered the high cost of living and government corruption as decisive issues in their vote, while seven out of ten said Congress is not doing enough to limit presidential powers. The challenge for Democrats is to combine oversight of the administration with efforts to ease living burdens, especially since they lack the majority needed to override a presidential veto on their own.