Trump Confronts Republican Rifts

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In just over a month, Donald Trump will be sworn in as president again. He and his congressional allies want to hit the ground running, but Republican lawmakers are quickly confronting divides and questions over where to start. With a thin majority in the house, and being far short of the 60 votes needed in the Senate to pass votes at will, a split has emerged among GOP leaders over how—and when—to turn Trump’s legislative agenda into law.

Meanwhile, after making inflation and the cost of groceries a key part of his campaign, Trump has begun to walk back some of his promises to lower prices. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists discuss what could be behind that change.

Joining Lisa Desjardins, the guest moderator and a PBS NewsHour correspondent, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York Times; Hans Nichols, a political reporter at Axios; Toluse Olorunnipa, the White House bureau chief for The Washington Post; and Ali Vitali, a Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News.

Watch the full episode here.