Tamara Keith

He is very influential.

And last night he put his stamp of approval on this deal to separate out the Homeland Security funding.

He wrote on Truth Social, hopefully both Republicans and Democrats will give a very much needed bipartisan yes vote.

Typically, he has been able to get House Republicans to take votes they don't want to take.

He has had incredible influence over them.

So he clearly does not want an extended government shutdown, certainly not over this issue.

All right.

Well, we will keep watching and we will keep updating here on the NPR Politics Podcast.

We're going to take a quick break.

And when we come back, relitigating the 2020 election again.

And we're back.

Be sure to join us on Monday when we'll have a conversation about Kevin Warsh, the president's pick to be the new chairman of the Federal Reserve.

And now NPR's political reporter Stephen Fowler is here along with NPR's senior political editor and correspondent, Domenica Montanaro.

Hello.

We're going to turn now to Georgia, where the FBI raided the election center in Fulton County.

That's where Atlanta is.

It's in connection with the 2020 presidential election, which Joe Biden won lawfully.

President Trump continues to claim falsely that it was stolen from him.

Here he was earlier this month in Davos, Switzerland.

So, Stephen, you have been covering the 2020 election for, I guess, we're going on six years now.