WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump’s Republican Party will control both houses of Congress when he takes office in January, Decision Desk HQ projected on Nov 11, enabling him to push an agenda of slashing taxes and shrinking the federal government.

Republicans had already secured a US Senate majority of at least 52 to 46, Edison Research projected, and DDHQ projected they would hold at least 218 seats in the House of Representatives, with eight races yet to be called in the Nov 5 election.

During his first presidential term in 2017 to 2021, Trump’s biggest achievement was sweeping tax cuts that are due to expire next year.

That legislation and Democratic President Joe Biden’s signature US$1 trillion (S$1.3 trillion) infrastructure law both came during periods when their parties controlled both chambers of Congress.

By contrast, during the past two years of divided government, Mr Biden has had little success in passing legislation and Congress has struggled to perform its most basic function of providing the money needed to keep the government open.

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