A Republican House

<p>Divided government appears poised to return to Washington. In the midterm elections, the Republicans seem likely to manage to eke out a majority in the House, but they will have a historically small margin of control.</p><p>The Republican majority will be very conservative, made up of longtime members — some of whom have drifted more to the right — and a small but influential group of hard-right Republicans who are quite allied with former President Donald J. Trump and helped lead the effort to try to overturn the 2020 election.</p><p>What can we expect from this new Republican-controlled House?</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/julie-hirschfeld-davis?smid=pc-thedaily">Julie Davis</a>, congressional editor for The New York Times.</p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>After the midterm elections, the Republican ranks in the House<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/us/politics/new-house-members.html"> have grown more extreme and slightly more diverse</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/us/politics/republicans-leaders-house-speaker.html">Republican rebels are trying to make their leaders sweat</a> after a worse-than-expected outcome in the elections.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>