5 big storylines that will shape 2025: From the Politics Desk

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : After running on an agenda of retribution against perceived political foes, Trump said this month in an interview with "Meet the Press" that he wants to turn the page.
46% : Next, he'll have to navigate a series of difficult tasks with a wafer-thin House majority: another round of government funding on March 14, a debt limit deadline and a major party-line bill (perhaps two) to advance Trump's agenda on immigration, border security, energy and tax cuts.
42% : Will they use their power to settle scores for Trump?
23% : They spent the last days of 2024 portraying Trump as a puppet of billionaires like Elon Musk and demanding a debt limit hike to grease the wheels for giving Tump another tax cut bill.
20% : It's notable that some Democrats' harshest criticism of Trump after the election came when he said it would be "hard" to lower grocery prices.
13% : On what issues, if any, will Thune say no to Trump, and how? There are early indications that Democrats, burned by their failures in 2024, want to deal with Trump differently than they did in his first term.

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