Trump flexes power over GOP
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(Worthy News) – President-elect Trump tangled with Republicans in Congress for the first time since the election on Tuesday — and won.
Trump took to Twitter Tuesday morning to criticize House Republicans who had voted to curb the powers of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). He argued that there were “so many other things of far greater importance.”
Within hours, an emergency meeting of Republicans on Capitol Hill had agreed to abandon the controversial proposal, which had originally been pushed by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.). [ Source ]
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