While clearly favoring the House plan on the budget, Trump also steamrolled through hesitant senators to push through even his most contentious Cabinet nominees, some of whom maintained high-profile policy disagreements with Senate lawmakers.
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President Donald Trump has turned Congress on its head in first month in office, seemingly bringing the Senate to heel while working closely with the lower chamber to accomplish his policy goals. Formerly a bastion of anti-Trump Republicans, the upper chamber has largely been cleared of major detractors, save for a few die-hard institutionalists, and its remaining members either support the MAGA movement or have declined to break with the president.
ThenarrowlydividedHouse,meanwhile,seemstoenjoyTrump’sfavorandgreaterattention,largelyduetoitscloseralignmentwithhisgoals,butalsoduetothenarrowandoftenfractiousmajoritythatmakespassinglegislationtherepotentiallymoredifficult.ThoughinhisfirsttermTrumpwasdisinclinedtoweighinonparliamentaryissues,hehasthusfartakenanactiveapproachtoshapingaplannedbudgetpackagethroughwhichhehopestocodifymanyofhisexecut
