Washington – The Republicans will capture their majority in the US house and regain control of the Senate when the congress is called in January to make the party significant political changes in the next two years.
The GOP only had the 218 house seats tardy Wednesday when the Associated Press, the news organization that the newsroom is dependent on Decades of experiencePresent Designation of the control of the chamber. So far, the AP called 208 seats for Democrats, with nine to decide until early Thursday.
In combination with the elected President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the election results will have extensive effects on the future of the country and could give the former president the opportunity to add one or more judges to the Supreme Court.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Said during A press conference On Tuesday, before the AP predicted, the GOP would keep the majority that he had been talking to the GOP legislators for months and created a plan for a uniform control of the government, even though it refused to share details.
“Last year I worked with our committee chair and our Senate colleagues to lay the basis for this American first agenda,” said Johnson. “It will expand our economy and reduce inflation. It will secure our limits. We will restore America’s energy dominance. We will implement freedom of education and we will be released. And that’s just the beginning of the agenda. “
The AP -Prognostized Republicans would hold 53 seats in the Senate after turning Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia from blue to red. However, there was an extremely little chance that the Keystone state could return on Democrats.
The reigning democratic Senator Bob Casey did not have to admit the Republican Dave McCormick, and the competition was the competition and the competition was On the way to a recording.
Anyone who ultimately wins the outstanding races determines how often GOP leaders have to be rely on the Democrats in the next two years and how often they can lead to it alone.
The Republicans in the house had been confronted with hurdles in the past two years when they tried to move invoices without democratic support from this chamber, mainly due to mighty disagreements between centric and right-wing extremists of the GOP conference.
This will probably not change in the next congress, especially with the Republicans who continue their razor -thin housing majority.
Tax reductions a priority
The GOP legislators probably utilize a uniform control of the congress to remedy the core aspects of their tax law for 2017, which have already expired or have already carried out and should make significant changes to the country’s health insurance market, namely by revising the Affordable Care Act, also known, also known, known as Obamacare.
Managers will likely apply the complicated budget reconciliation process for these tasks and possibly others to bring them to the Senate’s 60-tax legislative filibuster and ensure that they do not need democratic support.
The Republicans must also keep up with the annual to-do list in the congress, including the development of the dozen annual state financing laws and the annual law on defense policy, which is known as a national defense authoritation act.
Republicans who regularly focus on the annual deficit and cumulative public debt must find a way to augment or suspend the country’s debt border, which is to expire on January 1.
You will have a few months of so -called “extraordinary measures” for the debt limit, while you have an agreement, but have to achieve a kind of deal history and global financial crisis.
Johnson is on the right track to stay at the top in the house after he supported the party in maintaining the majority, although he has to go through the formality of a ground vote in January.
South Dakota Senator John Thune will be the next majority leader of his chamber After a closed door voice of the Republican senators on Wednesday.
The two GOP leaders and jurisdiction committees will go a two-year sprint to treat as much as possible before voters go to the surveys again in November 2026 and possibly change the balance of power again.
Last updated 6:51 a.m., November 14, 2024
