Trump has ‘preliminary plans’ to visit Capitol Hill ahead of Biden meeting
By
Cami Mondeaux
November 12, 2024 11:16 am
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President-elect Donald Trump is expected to make a visit with House Republican leadership on Capitol Hill before meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday morning, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters on Tuesday.
Although the details have not been finalized, Johnson said they have “preliminary plans” to meet with the president-elect before he meets with Biden to discuss the transition. It’s not yet clear what time that meeting could be, but the speaker said it would likely be in the morning before Trump heads to the White House.
“I think he said it first before I did but that he wanted to come and visit with House Republicans,” Johnson said. “So we’re working out the details of him gathering with us potentially tomorrow morning before he goes to the White House, and that would be a great meeting and a moment for all of us.”
The meeting on Capitol Hill will happen just days before Johnson plans to go to Mar-a-Lago over the weekend to meet with Trump and discuss “details on the plan ahead” for a possible GOP trifecta next year. Although the race for House control has not yet been called, Republicans look poised to maintain their slim majority, securing GOP control in both chambers of Congress as well as the White House.
“As you can imagine right now, he has a lot going on,” Johnson said. “He has to fill out a Cabinet, he has to appoint his top staff, and he’s beginning to do that.”
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