Republicans' exact majority in the House will shift over the first few weeks of Trump's second term, as Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. and Mike Waltz, R-Fla., plan to leave Congress for roles in his administration. When they are replaced through special elections, the GOP lead in the lower chamber is expected to reach 220-215.

The Republican Congress that began its first full week of work on Monday is already operating on borrowed time – unless the GOP can defy one of the most powerful patterns of recent US politics.

Sen. Eric Schmitt is tackling the administrative state by debuting key legislation in the newly Republican-controlled Congress.

Bring it on. That’s the message from former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger amid calls from President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters who say he should be prosecuted and jailed for his role in the congressional committee that investigated the violent riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

President-elect Trump will inherit a country that is '...actually in better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since George W. Bush came into office in 2001,' writes the New York Times' Peter Baker.

Minnesota Republicans are expected to file a petition to the state Supreme Court Monday, hoping to delay a special election that will determine the balance of power in the state House.

President-elect Donald Trump presses Republicans to swiftly send him "one powerful Bill" after he takes office.

A Democrat is returning to the job of speaker of the Pennsylvania House after the Republican candidate bowed out

Operation Vance: Soon after accompanying newly elected U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio to his official swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Vice President-elect JD Vance had minor surgery for a sinus condition, Sabrina Eaton writes. A statement from Vance spokesman Will Martin said the Cincinnati Republican would be back on the job the next day.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to let voters repeal and create state laws without legislative involvement met opposition from the Republican leaders of the Legislature, who signaled that the idea is likely to be rejected for a second time.