Reporter's Notebook: Alcohol, not coffee

Republicans control the House and Senate.

But characterizing it as the "Republican Congress" doesn’t do justice to the present circumstances.

This truly is "President Trump’s Congress."

The president’s relationship with Republican lawmakers is light-years away from the fraught, shotgun marriage of 2017 after he unexpectedly captured the White House. Republicans on Capitol Hill didn’t know what to do with him.

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