In just over one month, President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office again.

He and his congressional allies want to hit the ground running in January,

but as they move toward taking control of government, Republican lawmakers are quickly confronting

divides over where to start, as well as how and when to pass Trump's ambitious agenda.

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week. I'm Lisa Desjardin.

Jeffrey Goldberg is away.

President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill are unified on the

big picture ahead, eagerly backing the Trump agenda on key issues like the border, taxes, and energy.

But that's the easy part. Now, the hard part. Thanks to their razor-thin majority in the House and being

far short of the 60 votes needed in the Senate

to pass bills at will, a split has emerged among GOP leaders over how and when to turn Trump's

legislative wish list into law. And by the way, what exactly is his wish list? Joining me tonight

to take a closer look at Trump's promises and the reality of the present are Peter Baker, the New York Times chief Washington correspondent.

Hans Nichols, a political reporter at Axios and the author of The Hill Leaders Newsletter.

Taluapu Oloranupa is the White House Bureau Chief at the Washington Post.

And Ali Vitale is a Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News, and we're happy to say the newly

named next anchor of MSNBC's way too early.

Welcome back to all of you.

This is a very quality cast of people tonight.

Peter, I want to start with you, and I want to start with a quote in one of your stories from

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