Trump received the “trifecta” against the backdrop of Republicans gaining control of the House of Representatives

US 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 an agenda of tax cuts and shrinking the federal government. UNN.

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As indicated, Republicans will have at least 218 votes needed to control the 435-seat House of Representatives, Edison predicts, with nine races still undecided. It was also reported by CNN and NBC News. Republicans have already secured a majority in the US Senate by no less than 52-48, with the outcome of one race undecided after the Nov. 5 election.

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As Bloomberg notes, Republicans have retained their slim majority in the US House of Representatives, giving Donald Trump and his party control over the elected branches of government and limiting potential limits on the new president’s powers.

Trump’s hold over the so-called Washington trifecta, Bloomberg notes, also strengthens the party’s position on imposing immigration controls and reducing regulation on Wall Street and the energy industry.

The Republican victory, it said, also removes 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 House vote also has broad implications for foreign policy, Bloomberg notes, “adding even more doubt to continued U.S. aid to Ukraine in its defense against Russian invasion.” Many Republicans in the House of Representatives opposed additional military aid to Ukraine, the publication notes.

However, Bloomberg notes, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives will be very small, and intra-party divisions threaten unity of action.

Trump, as indicated, may have more leverage over recalcitrant conservative hardliners, 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 advancing a removal petition from one lawmaker to nine.

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