Steve Bannon has likened the Republican-controlled Congress to the Duma – Russia’s largely ceremonial parliamentary assembly – while senior administration advisers have joked about ruling Capitol Hill with an “iron fist,” according to a report.
Explaining the failure of Republican representatives and senators to stand up to President Donald Trump in his second term, his former White House chief strategist told The Wall Street Journal that he believed the president’s four years “in the wilderness” between 2021 and 2025, when Joe Biden was in power, had hardened his resolve to realize his aims.
