GOP Sen. Southworth said Trump “is not a normal” Republican, but he’s the “best and possibly the only person who can be president right now.”

Republicans and Democrats expect Sen. Mitch McConnell will remain a thorn in Donald Trump's side even without a leadership role.

Political analysts addressed questions about Trump's control over Republicans amid a looming government shutdown threat.

Thirty-four Republicans voted against his budget plan. That’s a caucus big enough to tank anything crazy in the future. From David Mastio:

That Donald Trump failed to achieve central goals in the government shutdown fight alongside Elon Musk seemed unimportant to many speakers and attendees at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest.

Donald Trump has met with Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to plan for his inauguration on January 20.Mayor Bowser wrote on X that she had a “great meeting” with the president-elect and hoped they would find “common ground” after clashing in the past over the policing of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in D.

Northern Kentucky's representative to Congress, Thomas Massie, says that he will not support Mike Johnson for speaker on Friday when the 119th Congress convenes.

Here's what NPR's White House correspondents would ask Biden at a press conference as his presidency comes to a close.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is refusing to back Mike Johnson for Speaker, branding him as the "next Paul Ryan" and likening him to Joe Biden.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat who serves as House Minority Leader, said on MSNBC: "There will be no Democrats available to save him or the extreme MAGA Republicans from themselves based on the breaching of a bipartisan agreement that reflected priorities that were good for the American people."

On Monday, the president-elect wrote on his social media platform that Johnson has his "complete and total endorsement."