Former President Donald Trump visited the US Capitol for the first time since leaving office, meeting with Republican senators to discuss legislative priorities. While no clear strategy emerged, Trump expressed confidence in achieving his goals.
President-elect Donald Trump emerged from a lengthy meeting on Capitol Hill with Republican senators late Wednesday with no preferred strategy for tackling his legislative priorities as House and Senate GOP leaders are straining to develop a plan as the party takes power in Washington. Trump said it “feels great” to be back inside the U.S. Capitol for the first time since he left office four years ago, after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot by his supporters.
With his wife, Melania, he also paid tribute to the late President Jimmy Carter lying in state in the Rotunda ahead of funeral services Thursday.“We're looking at the one bill versus two bills, and whatever it is, it doesn't matter,' Trump said about the conflicting strategies as he arrived. 'We’re going to get the result.” More than 90 minutes later, Trump exited from what he called a “great meeting, great unity,” with the same message: “One bill, two bills, doesn't matter.” Trump’s return to Capitol Hill marked a changed era in Washington as he strode through the corridors where four years ago a mob of his supporters had laid siege to the U.S. Capitol as senators fled to safety in a failed attempt to salvage Trump’s election defeat to President Joe Biden. Inside the lengthy meeting, Trump received applause and bursts of laughter from the Republican senators, staying late into the evening to confer with him behind closed doors. He talked about many topics — from his designs on Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal to the fires raging in California and even the North Dakota Bison game, senators said. He also met privately with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and is also expected to huddle over the weekend with House GOP lawmakers at his private club Mar-a-Lag
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