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“The President can do whatever he thinks is right,” Sen. Mike Rounds said of Trump weighing in on the leadership election. “But there are pitfalls.”

In the Senate GOP’s first leadership shake-up in nearly two decades, the candidate most in line with McConnell and least aligned with Trump won out.

“This one was not on my bingo card,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski told reporters.

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Republicans are already falling in line for Trump, even as the president-elect is, as Sen. Tim Kaine put it, “testing to see whether Republican senators have a gag reflex or not.”

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“What will change my role is that I will be the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee,” Sen. Susan Collins said.

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