Analysis | Welcome (back) to Trump's world

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : From across the web:Biden admin is planning for a possible migrant surge before Trump takes office.
60% : Top officials are working with their foreign counterparts in the final weeks of the Biden administration to see what can be accomplished before Trump is sworn in.
59% : Trump has signaled particular interest in the Justice and Defense Departments, advisers said, believing those agencies regularly stymied him in a first term, our colleagues note.
59% : One of them, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), pledged to work "hand in glove" with Trump.
56% : Although Trump refused to participate in the presidential transition process to Biden four years ago, Biden called Trump yesterday and invited him to the White House for a meeting and ensured a "smooth" transition, according to Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung.
53% : But his aides say Trump has a mandate based on the margin and scope of his victory.
50% : Another, Sen. John Thune (R-South Dakota), said Republicans would work "hand-in-hand" with Trump, Liz notes.
46% : A backstop?House Democrats are holding out for the slight chance that Democrats win control of the House by winning uncalled races in California, Arizona and elsewhere, though most think Democrats will fall short.Democrats have been preparing for the possibility that Trump and Republicans control Washington and move on Project 2025, a 900-page plan that Trump has largely denounced but was written by many of his former advisers.
45% : On the margins that makes it more difficult to push back."Brian Ballard, a lobbyist who raised millions of dollars for each of Trump's three campaigns, said he expects House and Senate Republicans to be more deferential to Trump than they were during the first years of his first term.
44% : The House and TrumpWhile control of the House has not yet been called, Republicans expect to win the majority and are gearing up for a trifecta.
44% : Trump has made vague foreign policy promises during the 2024 campaign, but has presented a largely isolationist view of America's role in the world.
39% : House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana), who flew to Palm Beach on election night when it became clear that Trump was going to win, said Republicans in Congress and the Trump team have been discussing their legislative priorities around taxes and energy policy.
37% : "We'll see if Trump is true to his more recent claims that he's going to let states decide," said Rachel Rebouché, dean of Temple University's law school.
36% : Scalise, who plans to run for majority leader again, assuming Republicans maintain their majority, said Trump won't abuse his power but will use "this new power to clean up what is broken.
30% : "Over President Joe Biden's remaining 10 weeks in office, foreign leaders will have to decide whether to acquiesce to his policy prescriptions or dismiss the U.S. leader as a lame duck and hold out for what they anticipate will be better treatment from Trump," report Karen DeYoung, Michael Birnbaum and Missy Ryan.
24% : Former senator Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pennsylvania), who retired at the end of his second term in 2023 and was one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump after his second impeachment trial, said Congress's job of oversight of the executive branch could be very politically tricky for Republicans.
24% : "Of the three separate conflicts in which Israel is currently engaged -- Gaza, Lebanon and Iran -- none is likely to be resolved before Trump takes office, and all depend far more on the actions of the parties directly involved than any desire for peace by the Biden administration.
20% : Biden has been far more supportive of Ukraine in the conflict, while Trump is likely to reduce aid or completely cut it.
19% : (Sen. John McCain of Arizona, for example, blocked a repeal of Obamacare and 10 Republicans tried to stop him from taking Defense Department money to build a border wall.)
10% : Perhaps the most significant issue Trump and Biden disagree on is Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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