A new Trump era is beginning, and he's already bending Washington to his will - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : "President Trump is the most influential president, clearly, in my lifetime," said Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, a Florida Republican.
69% : Coca-Cola's CEO personally presented Trump with a commemorative inaugural Diet Coke bottle, the president-elect's favorite drink.
68% : China's president said he would send his vice president to attend after Trump invited him and other world leaders, an unusual move.
66% : Going to Florida to see Trump at his home, Mar-a-Lago, has become almost a rite of passage for the business elite since the election.
50% : Still, Trump is taking office in a Washington that has largely been remade to answer to his will.
50% : The legislation that advanced this past week was smaller messaging bills, unlike the major tax, border security, and energy policy that Trump would like to enact through a legislative budgeting maneuver, reconciliation, that could pass the Senate with only Republican support.
44% : "Instead of shunning Trump as a fringe outsider, as they did in the past, titans of the tech world were slated to have plum seats for the inauguration, near the Cabinet-in-waiting, before the ceremony was moved indoors because of cold weather in a sudden change of longstanding plans on Friday.
34% : Late in the week, House Speaker Mike Johnson made a surprise move to replace the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who had found himself at odds with Trump last year over Ukraine funding and Trump's comments about Haitian immigrants in his Ohio district.
23% : "We're supposed to have disagreements on policy here, right?" said Washington Representative Dan Newhouse, one of only two remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in 2021.
18% : Newhouse said he has reached out to speak with Trump but has not connected with him recently.

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