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Trump Confronts Republican Rifts – The Atlantic

Trump Confronts Republican Rifts – The Atlantic
14
Dec

How—and when—Republican lawmakers will flip the president-elect’s legislative agenda into legislation

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In simply over a month, Donald Trump will likely be sworn in as president once more. He and his congressional allies wish to hit the bottom working, however Republican lawmakers are shortly confronting divides and questions over the place to start out. With a skinny majority in the home, and being far wanting the 60 votes wanted within the Senate to go votes at will, a cut up has emerged amongst GOP leaders over how—and when—to show Trump’s legislative agenda into legislation.

In the meantime, after making inflation and the price of groceries a key a part of his marketing campaign, Trump has begun to stroll again a few of his guarantees to decrease costs. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists talk about what may very well be behind that change.

Becoming a member of Lisa Desjardins, the visitor moderator and a PBS NewsHour correspondent, to debate this and extra: Peter Baker, the chief White Home correspondent at The New York Occasions; Hans Nichols, a political reporter at Axios; Toluse Olorunnipa, the White Home bureau chief for The Washington Publish; and Ali Vitali, a Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC Information.

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