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Republicans keep the House, securing both Congress and the White House

by thebesig••63

A House race was called that gave the Republicans the majority they needed to keep control of the House. This majority helps narrow the chances that rogue Democrats would derail the certification of Donald Trump’s election. It also gives Trump majorities in both chambers of Congress when he begins his second term.  However, a slim majority opens the door to the increased effects of stalled legislation given the intraparty and interparty disputes that normally occur.

From The Hill:

The final House breakdown is uncertain, with ballots still being counted for several races in California. But Republicans are expected to have another slim majority heading into the new Congress.

Those exact numbers will matter a lot for Johnson’s political future, for which policies Republicans can enact, and how the lower chamber will function — or not function.

Trump gave the Speaker a shoutout in his victory speech from Palm Beach, Fla., in the early hours of Wednesday: “It also looks like we’ll be keeping control of the House of Representatives. And I want to thank Mike Johnson. I think he’s doing a terrific job.”

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and House GOP Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) also joined Trump at Mar-a-Lago to celebrate his victory, in an indication of the House GOP’s strong commitment to backing the Trump administration.

Top House Republicans have been working with Senate Republicans for months on legislative plans that they can swiftly send to Trump in the first 100 days of total Republican control. Those include extending the tax cuts passed in Trump’s first term, boosting border wall funding, repealing climate initiatives and promoting school choice.

But there are likely to be plenty of obstacles for Republicans’ ambitious agenda. The last two years of the historically slim House GOP majority was marked by intraparty disputes that, at times, brought legislative activity to a halt. That chaos was headlined by the historic ouster of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

Additional Reading:

Brooks, E. (2024, November 11). Republicans win House, delivering Trump a trifecta. The Hill. Link.

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63 thoughts on “Republicans keep the House, securing both Congress and the White House”

  1. Republicans, it’s time to set aside the petty squabbles and the pork and start doing what is best for our country. I remember reading how President Reagan, whenever he was briefed on a new initiative, always asked the question, “Is it good for America?” THAT has to be the only question you ask yourselves as you dig us out of this commie created hole we find ourselves in.

    1. They won’t. McConnell already made his move to screw over the people and has insured 2 of the 3 senators up for majority leader are RINOs. I hope Senator Scott from Florida gets the position, but I’m not optimistic.

      1. We need to put the pressure on it and Trump needs to play the “Do it or I’ll send your ass to GITMO!!” card….

  2. Great news. Now let’s see if any of them have grown any type of spine, or will they be more inclined to go along get along.
    I hope we don’t see the same old we’ve been watching for years.

  3. Just think we should be invading Poland by Spring and Paris will be May, no later. Then the death camps. But who will run them? Perhaps commissary is available?

  4. Elise Stefanik has been appointed Ambassador to the worthless UN, and she has accepted. There goes a MUCH needed House seat.

    1. Resume padding. And probably a pay raise and nearly unlimited travel.

      Bring me back a souvenir please.

    2. That district has been reliably red since 2014. I expect the red will win a special. Mike Waltz was also in the House and his seat is as red as they come.

    3. So far other than Noem seems every announced Cabinet post is coming out out of Congress. A few might be OK, a lot could cost months of lost opportunities as states try to fill seats.

      1. I think the hope and idea here is that the loyalty will be enforced by the populace. A number of the first administration appointees were swamp dwellers who had a rep for getting things done. They had the loyalty of an alley cat and that showed at the end.

        If someone wants to jump ship they will have no where to go.

  6. OK I think I’m going to have to generate a Homeland Security incident….
    Because HOLY FUCK!!! BONER TYME!!

      1. Eff them. People who are ranchers reserve the right to kill animals that become a threat. A dog that kills other domestic animals for fun and bites people needs to be put down.

        2. Yup. That’s not something you just train out of a dog. I’m curious, whatever happened to Biden’s dogs? You know, the ones that developed a taste for Secret Service agents. I’m quite certain that they didn’t get rehomed.

          2. Oh they went to live on a beautiful farm in the country. You know, where they like dogs that bite people.

        3. I would not fit in well with the left tards on this issue. My trap line is going to be set starting this week. But I do use dog proof traps for coon at least. I better pickup some accidental kill tags for the other sets though.

      2. Of course they weren’t present so they pass judgment. F them. She didn’t do it for pleasure.

    1. Our friends to the North like their freedom set to “vapid”. It’s why they never threw the tea in the St Lawrence River.

      1. And that is why we are still a ‘ Constitutional Monarchy ‘
        We never rejected the inbred reptilian Royals

  8. Back during the Mid Terms, the Red Wave didn’t quite materialise.
    But last week’s Red Tsunami did!

    1. It would have been a bit bigger but a number of federal redistricting measures (one in my state as well) curtailed the number of seats.

      1. Same here, Gerry Ford’s old district went Dem, again. I warned those idiots, never trust a dem named Hillary, but they did. Then again, does anyone in state government ever check to see if out of state college kids who register to vote in their college state also vote in their home states? I’m sure that many of them have done so, and will do so until some of them go to prison.

  9. I, for one, see a repeat of 2017/2018 when the repugnicunts had control and did absolutely NOTHING! Watch…

    My kongress klown kritter, Austin Scott, is a republicunt of the highest order. Can you say “Base Re-naming Committee”? How about “Let’s remove the Reconciliation Peace Monument”? PHUQUE HEEM and ALL of the rest of the kongress klown kritters. To paraphrase an infamous Gunnery Sergeant… “…they are all equally worthless to me…” Where’s a pissed of JAL wide body driver when you need one? Axing for a fren’…

    Prove me wrong…I’ll wait.

    1. Hmmmmmmm…… any chance of getting the historic names back? Benning and Bragg will always be Benning and Bragg to me.

      1. How much did the needless renaming cost?

        I often wondered where that shit would end… renaming states because their names reminded the poor little sensitive types of the days of racism and slavery? Removing Confederate officer’s names from the list of graduates of West Point? Jesus H. Christmas…

      2. Hmmm, you have to rename the home of the Army Airborne. Well, there’s a Medal of Honor recipient and genuine hero whose life goal was to be a paratrooper. (Also, not that it should matter, but said hero is Hispanic)

        Naturally, we name it Ft. Benavidez, right? Right? Nope, it’s the generic Fort Liberty.

  11. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!

    Pete Hegseth SEC DEF!!! 😳🥹🫡

    Princeton University (BA)
    Harvard University (MPP)

    Army Major
    2 X Broze star

    Iraq and Afghanistan wars, GITMO

    CIB & EIB

    Motherfucking shit and now he just is going to make Vivek Ramaswami and Elon musk the heads of the Government Efficiency Agency

    1. So the appointment rules on the military/ Security side appear to be:

      1. Loyalty
      2. Military with multiple deployments
      3. Beautiful wife

        1. I’m a just drop this right here because every couple of minutes holy shit there’s just more and more news about master genius Trump troll, Is actually pulling the most epic coup, In US political history

    1. Yup.

      Hope they put their heads together and pull their fingers out of each others asses and get crackin’ on fixing this country.

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  14. Just read an article from the hill. Here’s demoncrat thinking.
    “Success runs directly through leading with economic issues,” said Pete D’Alessandro, a senior aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during his 2016 presidential campaign. 
    “This isn’t some abstract theory either. It’s what Dems do when they win,” D’Alessandro said. “You lead with economic populism and because you win, you can do the other things.”
    In other words deceive the voters and March toward communism

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