This is Brian Lairr's Daily Politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Monday, January 19th.

I'm Tiffany Hanson in for Brian.

Today we start with our Monday morning politics roundup.

We're going to talk about some of what's

been happening in politics inside and outside of the Washington Beltway, including the

growing rift between President Trump and congressional Republicans, the latest on the possible

extension of health care subsidies, and the effort to rein in the ability of politicians to make

money on cryptocurrency.

With us to talk about all of it is Eleanor Mueller, who reports on Congress for Semaphore.

Good morning, Eleanor.

Good morning.

Eleanor, let's just get started with these cracks that we're seeing between President Trump and congressional Republicans.

In some of the reporting you've done on the

president's economic agenda. You quoted Republican Senator Josh Holly from Missouri, saying

essentially that Congress had been in a mode of sit back and cheer on Trump, but that things are

starting to change. We are seeing areas that, as I mentioned, like the president's economic policies, but also the investigation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell and health care subsidies.

And as we've been hearing a lot about this morning and over the weekend, Greenland, those rifts forming, well, even just a few weeks ago, we had some Republicans like Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina,

who, by the way, is the co-chair of the Senate NATO Observer Group, saying, quote,

a wish list of U.S. satellites didn't make sense.

We've seen protests in Greenland, a shift in the thinking after what happened in Venezuela.

The president, you know, might be serious about this takeover of Greenland.

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