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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump has a narrow window to advance his aggressive agenda. He’ll need these right-wing hardliners to push it through

Donald Trump wants to avoid the kind of legislative defeat his party suffered in 2017, the last time his party had unified control of the government - (Getty Images)

We’re less than two weeks out from the initial sprint of the second Trump administration — and the incoming president is now seeking to push aside one of his biggest hurdles.

In the clearest sign yet that Donald Trump is serious about pursuing an aggressive legislative agenda in his first year in office, he is taking an active role in managing the future of the House Republican Conference. Where once he was at arm’s length of Republican congressional leadership, Trump has leaned in to his role as leader of the GOP and now casts a long shadow over the House and Senate Republican conferences.

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