“Republicans’ decisive Senate takeover has transformed what was once a body full of traditionalists who viewed Donald Trump with skepticism and even some disdain into a compliant and loyal chamber full of allies ready to advance his agenda,” the New York Times reports.
“Gone is the uncertainty and unease that met Mr. Trump from some GOP quarters on Capitol Hill eight years ago, when his victory was wholly unexpected, his policy agenda largely unknown and leading Republicans were willing to challenge him. The incoming president and nearly every senator in the new majority of at least 52 Republicans now share almost identical goals on big issues such as taxes, immigration, energy production and domestic social policy.”
