With House and Senate in GOP hands the Republican president-elect could be poised to break through some of the capital’s gridlock as he weighs cabinet picks
Donald Trump will begin his presidency in January with the rare luxury of control by his party of both chambers of Congress, raising the prospect that he might be able to dislodge some of the gridlock that has paralyzed Capitol Hill.
It will be the first time since Barack Obama suffered his midterm “shellacking” in 2010 at the hands of the Tea Party that one-party rule has returned to Washington. In the first instance, it raises the chances of Trump being able to fulfill some of his promises to his supporters – that he will act as an agent of change, putting, as he said in his victory speech on Wednesday morning, “millions of people to work”.
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