When Donald Trump returns to Washington on Wednesday, the president-elect will receive a hero’s welcome from fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill.
“We are going to raise an ‘America First’ banner above this place,” Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told reporters on the steps of the US Capitol this week. “This leadership will hit the ground running to deliver President Trump’s agenda in the 119th Congress.”
Johnson is one of Trump’s fiercest allies in Congress and will be a pivotal ally for the incoming president with a radical agenda. The Republican president-elect wants to slash taxes and regulation, overhaul American healthcare, carry out “mass deportations” of undocumented migrants and slap steep tariffs on foreign goods.