The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 6, the day after Election Day.
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Republicans have formally received a full trifecta of energy in Washington, D.C., following GOP victories in a number of key U.S. Home contests.
Current race calls by The Related Press assure Republicans a slim majority within the Home and a three-seat majority within the Senate.
The marketing campaign for management of the Home was waged on a slim enjoying subject of roughly three dozen aggressive districts. Whereas the presidential marketing campaign was centered in seven purple states within the Midwest and the Solar Belt, the competition for the Home featured a cluster of important swing races within the blue states of New York and California.
President-elect Donald Trump will as soon as once more have allies on Capitol Hill in place to enact key objects on his agenda, like border safety. Republicans are additionally already planning an extension of the tax cuts Trump enacted in 2017 — the final time he and his social gathering had management of the White Home and Congress.
The information of full congressional management got here hours after Home Republicans chosen Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., for his first full time period within the position. Johnson should nonetheless be elected with 218 votes on the Home ground on Jan. 3, 2025. An anticipated slim majority means Johnson will want close to unanimous assist from GOP members to be reelected.
Republicans picked Johnson to steer the social gathering within the Home simply over a yr in the past, after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was eliminated by his personal members.
Johnson will work alongside Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., who was elected to steer the 53-47 GOP majority within the Senate subsequent yr. Thune succeeds Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who introduced earlier this yr that he would step except for social gathering management after practically 20 years.
Thune advised reporters that his precedence shall be advancing Trump’s agenda.
“This Republican team is united. We are one team, we are excited to reclaim the majority and get to work with our colleagues in the House to enact President Trump’s agenda,” Thune stated Wednesday after the closed-door election. “We have a mandate from American people — a mandate not only to clean up the mess left by the Biden-Harris-Schumer agenda, but also to deliver on President Trump’s priorities.”
