{"id":288709,"date":"2017-01-05T08:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T07:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-republicans-take-reins-of-new-congress-start-first-day-on-trump-agenda\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T07:20:09","slug":"us-republicans-take-reins-of-new-congress-start-first-day-on-trump-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-republicans-take-reins-of-new-congress-start-first-day-on-trump-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"US Republicans take reins of new Congress, start first day on Trump agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>The new Republican-dominated US Congress has convened its first session, beginning with setting plans to enact President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s agenda for tax cuts and the repealing of outgoing President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care law.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">US lawmakers commenced the first session of the 115th Congress on Tuesday, laying the groundwork for implementing Trump\u2019s agenda as their top legislative priority regarding tax cuts, rolling back financial and environmental regulations, and reversing Obama\u2019s health insurance program, known as Obamacare. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Republican lawmakers began the session in the hope of getting a quick start on priorities that had been blocked during the outgoing president\u2019s eight years in office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The 100-seat US Senate re-elected Paul Ryan as the\u00a0speaker of the House of Representatives, a role that will have him oversee and guide many of the efforts to impose Republican changes to the existing laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Trump has\u00a0made it clear since his election&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/03\/504728\/US-Congress-Donald-Trump-tax-cuts-Obamacare\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Republican-dominated US Congress has convened its first session, beginning with setting plans to enact President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s agenda for tax cuts and the repealing of outgoing President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care law. US lawmakers commenced the first session of the 115th Congress on Tuesday, laying the groundwork for implementing Trump\u2019s agenda as their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}