Trump and McConnell: Washington’s Most Powerful Odd Couple

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Trump and McConnell: Washington’s most powerful odd couple

By Alexander Bolton
Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump are Washington’s newest odd couple.

The two butted heads several times during this year’s presidential campaign, with McConnell at times admonishing Trump and at other moments distancing himself from his own party’s nominee. Now the men make up perhaps the most important GOP partnership in Washington.

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This week: Congress returns after election shocker
By Cristina Marcos and Jordain Carney
Members of Congress return this week to a political order upended from the one they left in Washington two months ago.
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Where now for the Democrats?

By Juan Williams
OPINION: What happens to Democrats in the Trump era?
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Trump names Priebus, Bannon to White House staff

By Mallory Shelbourne
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will be President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff, while campaign CEO Stephen Bannon will be chief strategist and senior counselor to the president.
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Lawmakers, pundits react to Bannon, Priebus White House roles

By Mallory Shelbourne
Lawmakers and pundits took to Twitter to slam President-elect for bringing former Breitbart News head Stephen Bannon to the White House.
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Trump tells supporters committing violence: ‘Stop it’
By Cyra Master
In a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday night, President-elect Donald Trump addressed the harassment of Latinos and Muslims by people supporting him. “I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: ‘Stop it.’”
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Trump faces decisions and opposition on counterterrorism proposals
By Julian Hattem and Katie Bo Williams
President-elect Donald Trump has to decide whether he is going to keep all of his controversial vows on counterterrorism and national security, some of which will be almost impossible to implement.
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Trump, GOP leaders: Secure border before crafting deportation policy
By Mark Hensch
Donald Trump and two top Republicans in Congress on Sunday agreed — securing America’s borders is the president-elect’s top immigration priority.
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By Peter Schroeder
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) say they are willing to work with President-elect Trump, but they are also preparing for war.
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By Alexander Bolton
Congressional Republicans face internal divisions over how far to go in repealing and replacing ObamaCare, one of their top political priorities of the past six years, without disrupting the lives of millions of Americans.
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The Washington Post: Trump pits establishment against populism at the top of his White House team
By Katie Zezima
The appointments of Reince Priebus and Stephen Bannon represent two opposing camps.
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The New York Times: Breitbart, reveling in Trump’s election, gains a voice in his White House
By Michael M. Grynbaum and John Herrman
The right-wing opinion and news site championed Donald J. Trump; its chairman, who helped run the campaign, was named chief White House strategist and senior counselor.
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The Associated Press: Obama will get many questions about Trump on last major trip
By Josh Lederman
It was supposed to be his grand valedictory tour. Now President Barack Obama must use his last major trip abroad to try to calm shocked world leaders about the outcome of the U.S. election, and what comes next when Donald Trump is president.
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USA Today: Sanders backs Trump protests, questions Electoral College
By Susan Page
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the surprisingly strong challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, sat down Sunday with USA TODAY’s Capital Download to talk about last week’s election stunner, the future of the Democratic Party and his new book, being published Tuesday by Thomas Dunne Books, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In.
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The Wall Street Journal: Paul Ryan expected to keep his Speakership
By Kristina Peterson and Siobhan Hughes
Donald Trump’s victory bolsters the Wisconsin lawmaker’s job security.
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