Republicans took control of Congress.
According to the AFP, the Republicans have taken complete control of Congress by winning a majority of seats in the US House of Representatives.
According to the media outlet, the Republicans have also taken over the US House of Representatives. With the majority of votes in the US House of Representatives, they now have complete control of Congress.
As the final results of the US Congressional elections, which were held simultaneously with the presidential elections on November 5th (last week), continue to be determined, the CBS network announced that the US Republicans have now achieved the quorum required to win a majority in this chamber of Congress by winning 218 seats in the House of Representatives.
CBS added that this television network’s estimates indicate that at the end of the final vote count, the Republicans will be able to win between 220 and 222 seats in the House of Representatives.
According to the BBC, although with only 2 to 4 seats above the required quorum, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives will be very close and somewhat fragile; given the Republicans’ victory in capturing the majority of votes in the Senate, the Republicans will now have complete control of the US Congress, and from next January, when Donald Trump officially begins his second term as president, the Republicans will be able to approve and implement their policies more easily by controlling the two main branches of government in their country – the executive and legislative branches.
The other independent branch of the US government system – the judiciary – will also be largely aligned with the Republicans, with the presence of six conservative judges on the country’s Supreme Court, according to observers.