From Washington: Obstacles Ahead For Senate Republicans

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🗓️ 7 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The 118th Congress began on a chaotic note for the House Republicans amid their struggle to elect a Speaker, leading many to wonder whether the GOP will face the same division in the Senate. While Democrats were able to maintain their slim majority, they fear their control of the Senate is more vulnerable due to potential retirements within their party. Senate and Governors Editor for The Cook Political Report, Jessica Taylor weighs in on the stark dichotomy between Republicans in the House and Senate, challenges Senate Democrats will face in 2024, and the future for legislation in the heavily divided Congress. President Biden announced a new plan for combatting record immigration across the U.S. Southern border, including expanding the Trump-era Title 42 program. How will the new measures impact migrants coming into the country? FOX News Correspondent and Co-Anchor of FOX News Live, Griff Jenkins joins to discuss the President's upcoming visit to the border, how the new policies may cause the Democrat party to push back against the Biden Administration and the possibility of Congressional action on immigration reform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.2	Saturday, January 7th, 2023, I'm Jared Halpern. The new Congress kicks off with a display
0:41.5	in differences for the House and Senate. The Senate looks like the grown-ups this week
0:46.0	while the House sort of feels like we're back in, you know, pre-K.
0:50.6	I'm Ryan Schmelz. President Biden plans to visit the southern border and rules out
0:55.4	new policies to deal with the crisis. How effective will the president's actions be?
1:00.4	There's been more than 700,000 encounters from the entire Southwest border since October
1:07.0	1st. That's never been seen. This is the Fox News rundown from Washington.
1:15.1	With fanfare and families gathered for portraits with the Vice President, Tuesday went exactly
1:29.3	as planned in the Senate. Several hundred feet removed from the uncertainty and shifting
1:34.8	votes in the House, senators began the 118th Congress without any drama and without doing
1:39.8	much of anything at all. In fact, Tuesday was the chamber's only-day in session with
1:44.2	votes not expected until the 23rd of this month. It was another display of a stark contrast
1:50.2	between the people's house and the upper chamber and some of the debate this week on the House
1:55.0	floor, decrying Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also raises questions
2:01.0	about how the two bodies of the legislative branch will cooperate the next two years.
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