Messy backstage jockeying in Trump transition could shape Hill strategy four years after Jan. 6

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : As for Elon Musk's powerful role, Trump enjoys the company of wealthy people, and the X owner is the richest person on the planet.
63% : Using a process known as reconciliation, which lowers the threshold from 60 Senate votes to 51 - both parties have used this for party-line dominance - Trump favors "one big beautiful bill."
56% : I can remember being in that second-floor office when Mike McCurry was press secretary, and Bill Clinton walking in and chatting while I was working on my book "Spin Cycle."
56% : But as Trump knows all too well, having done this job before, when there's a terror attack or border incident or rising grocery prices on his watch, he owns it.
53% : Trump hedged his bets yesterday, telling radio host Hugh Hewitt: "I would prefer one, but...I'm open to either way, as long as we get something passed as quickly as possible.
46% : "Is that worse than what happened on Jan. 6, 202?SUBSCRIBE TO HOWIE'S MEDIA BUZZMETER PODCAST, A RIFF ON THE DAY'S HOTTEST STORIESIt's true that the outgoing president has, among other things, issued orders to stop oil exploration along 625 million acres offshore, but there's no reason the "drill, baby, drill" president can't reverse that, although it could slow him down.
39% : That would include budget cuts, energy deregulation, tax cuts, the border crackdown and other presidential priorities.
31% : SPARKS DEFIANCE FROM MANY REPUBLICAN REBELSBut the jockeying sheds light on a dilemma that Trump may face in a city that he controls, with both houses of Congress under Republican management (and Kamala Harris peacefully certifying the transfer of power yesterday, four years to the day after the Capitol riot).
30% : No matter who you agree with, I think it's fair to say that issue was litigated in the election, and Americans voted to put Trump back in the White House knowing full well what happened during the televised riot.
28% : Meanwhile, with Kamala Harris certifying her own defeat in routine fashion yesterday - drawing live coverage considering the history of Jan. 6 - Donald Trump posted this:"Biden is doing everything possible to make the TRANSITION as difficult as possible, from Lawfare such as has never been seen before, to costly and ridiculous Executive Orders on the Green New Scam and other money wasting Hoaxes.
26% : But Trump views her as a grandmother and doesn't yell at her the way he might at other officials over a disagreement.
7% : Having dragged Mike Johnson across the finish line in the election for speaker, by making calls even from his golf course, Trump now faces a dilemma after the Christmas debt ceiling battle that just delayed the budget fight until March.

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