Lets hope DC listens to the voters OTHER message and actually starts working together

Both sides made bipartisan noises Wednesday in the wake of Tuesday’s seismic shift in Washington power; let’s all hope it truly opens an era of lawmakers working together for the American people.Follow for live updates on the 2026 Midterm ElectionsThat’s what most voters want, but it’ll mean both Republicans and Democrats looking past their differences and opening up to principled compromise.Again, the initial signs are good: “I can work with [Democrats] on a lot of things,” President Donald Trump said, pointing to immigration as one area in particular as ripe for cooperation.He not only can “get along” with Dems he said; “they’ve already called” to “talk about things, and that’s fine.”Trump correctly notes that, despite their new majorities, Dems won’t have enough votes to override his veto, so they’ll have to work with him to get anything passed.House Speaker-to-be Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) offered his own olive branch, vowing: “We are ready, willing and able to find bipartisan common ground with the other side of the aisle” to “bring about meaningful change.”His top priority: “the affordability crisis” — though only time will tell if he accepts that compromise there means bending on such things as the rush to end all fossil-fuel use, which is driving up energy costs.Incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (also D-Brooklyn; can we hope for inter-borough amity with the prez from Queens?) was more defiant, declaring: “The days of Trump’s supplicant Senate are over.”But he still nodded to the larger point: “Voters did not give us the majority so we can do whatever we want,” he admitted, “they entrusted us with the majority to do what they — the American people — want.” Now he just needs to admit that they want both sides to bear down and work together.Also encouraging: Sen.-elect James Talarico (D-Texas) cites “a wide variety of issues that [Dems and Trump] can work together on,” including i...