President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons of more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, including individuals who assaulted police officers, stunned Republican lawmakers who witnessed firsthand the chaos on Capitol Hill four years ago.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is surrounded by a very different Washington than he was eight years ago. Many Republicans thought his political career was over after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. But he came back stronger than ever — and brought Washington with him.

Kevin Cramer of North Dakota ... Oddly enough, however, at the same Capitol Hill press conference, the House speaker made some related comments that completely contradicted his own misguided and unpersuasive line. NBC News reported: House Speaker Mike ...

Many Republicans on Capitol Hill do not agree with President Donald Trump's decision to pardon and commute sentences for more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the

“This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” Trump said in his speech. He has repeated those themes throughout the last eight years. “It was a very jarring moment,” King said.

Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) told The Hill, referring to Trump ... During the two-hour meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday night, Trump and Republican senators wrestled over the best strategy for ...

Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, right, arrives with his wife Kathryn Burgum to testify before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington,

Asked directly by POLITICO about Trump’s executive order to grant TikTok a reprieve in defiance of the law passed by Congress, Senate Majority Leader John Thune — who supported the ban and once pushed his own bill to crack down on the app — appeared willing to let Trump’s order stand for now.

Here’s what Republican senators told ABC News after President Donald Trump issued pardons for Jan. 6 violent offenders.

Three days ahead of Trump’s return to the White House, many of his most prominent Cabinet choices have sailed relatively unscathed through their hearings and are poised to win confirmation as Republican senators rallied around them and appeared largely unwilling to defy Trump’s wishes.

Even Republicans who once said violent rioters should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law declined to criticize the presidential clemency for violent offenders, saying it was time to move on.

President Donald Trump left no doubt regarding his about-face on banning TikTok when he invited the social media app’s CEO to his inauguration, where Shou Zi Chew sat next to the nominee for director of national intelligence,