We want to close the federal Department of Education.”  But fulfilling that promise is easier said than done. Dismantling the agency – which provides billions of dollars each year to low-income public schools and billions more to help millions of Americans pay for college – would likely require the support of congressional Democrats,

The role is key to the president-elect's plans to carry out mass deportations, pardon Jan. 6 rioters and seek retribution against those who prosecuted him over the past four years.

Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.

In Washington political parlance, it's called "a governing trifecta", when the president's party also controls both chambers of Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate. That control is what Donald Trump's Republican Party now has.

Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party’s sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump

Republicans will keep control of the House of Representatives, the Associated Press has projected, giving President-elect Trump a majority in both houses of Congress. House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he will work aggressively to implement Trump’s agenda,