U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Republican Party will control both houses of Congress when he takes office in January, Edison Research predicted on Wednesday, allowing him to push through a tax cut and shrink the federal government, Reuters reports, UNN writes.
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As indicated, the Republicans will have at least 218 votes needed to control the House of Representatives with 435 seats, Edison predicts, with nine races still to be decided. This was also reported by CNN and NBC News. The Republicans have already secured a majority in the US Senate with at least 52-48, with the outcome of one race not yet determined after the November 5 election.
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As Bloomberg notes, the Republicans retained their slim majority in the US House of Representatives, giving Donald Trump and his party control of the elected branches of government and limiting potential restrictions on the new president's powers.
According to Bloomberg, Trump's power over the so-called Washington trifecta also strengthens the party's position on immigration controls and reduced regulation on Wall Street and in the energy sector.
The Republican victory, as indicated, also eliminates the threat of a congressional investigation of Trump's actions by Democrats. During his first term, the House of Representatives impeached him twice, although the Senate never found him guilty.
The results of the House vote also have broad foreign policy implications, as Bloomberg notes, "adding further doubt to the continuation of U.S. assistance to Ukraine in its defense against Russian invasion." Many Republicans in the House of Representatives opposed additional military aid to Ukraine, the newspaper notes.
However, Bloomberg notes , the Republican majority in the House of Representatives will be very thin, and intra-party disagreements threaten unity of action.
Trump, as indicated, may have more leverage over recalcitrant hard-line conservatives, especially with measures that are a priority for his administration.
Later on Wednesday, House Republicans approved a rule aimed at preventing another public removal of the speaker from office in the next Congress, raising the threshold for moving a motion to remove from one lawmaker to nine.
Johnson was elected speaker of the House of Representatives last October after a handful of rebels ousted his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy.
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