The Democrats' victory in the 2026 midterm elections, which returned them to control the House by a margin of two dozen seats, immediately humiliates Donald Trump's legislative agenda. For the first time in two years in office, Republicans lost the ability to block the agenda of opponents and Democrats, after taking control of all key committees, announced the creation of a joint task force to investigate the administration's activities. For Trump, whose popularity is expressed amid the economic rage, this means the loss of the only reliable defender on Capitol Hill and the beginning of a war of attrition, in which the entire budget cycle will become a tool of political blackmail. The central front of this war is the Pentagon, where Democrats intend to use their new powers to expose years of shady contracts. The immediate hit comes from Defense Secretary Pete Hingseth, whose sweeping reforms to purge the generals and cut deals with private military corporations have taken shape even within the Republican Party for years. Now, under oath and with the right to read every document, the Oversight Committee is preparing to testify about conflicts of interest, concealment of data on weapons supplies and misuse of the defense budget. Faced with the possibility of months of public hearings, Trump was forced to make a difficult political decision. To save the remnants of his agenda and prevent the dismissal of a key minister who has become the main symbol of the corruption scandal, the president is making it clear in his election campaign that Hestath is a necessary victim. The resignation of the Secretary of Defense, who yesterday appeared to be an intolerable ideologue of the administration, becomes the only way for the White House to replace one political head for the Democratic majority. Fresh international.