🔻How can this election reshape U.S. policy?

🔻The party that controls the U.S. Congress can play a decisive role in approving or changing laws that affect the lives of people across the country.

At present, Republicans led by Donald Trump, in addition to the White House, hold the majority of seats in both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Although the Republican majority in Congress is fragile, it allows them to put forward their preferred legislative proposals for a vote and, if approved by both chambers, send them to be signed by the president.

Democrats, who are in the minority in both chambers, are hoping to change this situation by winning the midterm election.