Former President Donald J. Trump has big policy plans should he be re-elected, including mass deportation of undocumented immigrants and a supercharged crackdown against new migrants, tax breaks on tips and property taxes, expanded oil drilling on federal lands and the elimination of the Education Department.
A unified Republican government — the coveted trifecta of the Senate, House and White House — would make those goals easier to reach and help neutralize Democrats, who would no doubt try to stand in the way. And it would give Mr. Trump a free hand to install more conservative federal judges, including in the event of another vacancy on the already right-leaning Supreme Court, which has already granted him broad immunity from prosecution.
It is a lineup Republicans are counting on.
“We are going to grow the Republican majority in the House; we are going to take back the Senate and send Donald Trump back to the White House,” Speaker Mike Johnson assured the MAGA crowd on Sunday night at Mr. Trump’s invective-filled Madison Square Garden rally in New York.
That outcome is no sure thing, but it is a real possibility given the closeness of the battle for the House, the Republican edge in the fight for the Senate and Mr. Trump’s neck-and-neck race with Vice President Kamala Harris. It would open the door to a Republican push on legislation after two years of divided government has kept Congress focused on the basics of keeping federal agencies open and aid flowing to Ukraine.
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