The House GOP is more aligned with Trump than ever: From the Politics Desk

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Just this week alone -- more than 60 days before the inauguration -- Trump has already announced his picks to lead the State Department (Marco Rubio), Justice Department (Matt Gaetz), Defense Department (Pete Hegseth), Department of Health and Human Services (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), Interior Department (Doug Burgum) and other positions like director of national intelligence (Tulsi Gabbard).
57% : For these members, they only know a world where Trump has been a leader of their party.
50% : Even though the GOP's majority in the House will be far smaller now than it was during the beginning of his first term, Trump will likely be working with a far more pliable group of Republicans this time, plus a House speaker he sees as an ally.
47% : And while the Senate GOP conference has gotten more pro-Trump over the years, a majority of the new Senate will have started their tenure in the body before Trump took office.
42% : On "Meet the Press" last Sunday, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., told me Senate Republicans were looking forward to "moving quickly" on President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks so Trump "can hit the ground running come Jan. 20.
41% : And while there has been some GOP backlash to Gaetz, for example, it's a move that's exactly in line with what Trump signaled he'd do on the campaign trail, where he talked about overhauling the Justice Department.
38% : And a look at the dynamics in both chambers of Congress shows how their agenda might be easier for Trump to push through the House than the Senate.
37% : Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon told me this week that what Trump wants is to take a "blowtorch" to the Justice Department, and he sees Gaetz as that "torch."
34% : "It's unclear how much runway House Republicans will actually have -- they're expected to have only a narrow majority when the dust settles, and Trump is only complicating that with plans to nominate a handful of House Republicans to serve in his administration.
33% : The House GOP is more aligned with Trump than everBy Ben KamisarPresident-elect Donald Trump and the GOP believe Americans delivered them a mandate last week when they handed the party unified control of Washington.
24% : When it comes to his current picks, Trump is absolutely stress-testing whether Republican senators will break with him over some of his more controversial selections, like Gaetz and RFK Jr.

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