President-elect Donald Trump likes the idea of “one, big beautiful bill" for his top legislative priorities, but he emerged from a lengthy closed-door meeting with Republican senators late Wednesday open to other strategies as GOP leaders strain to develop a plan before the party gains full power in Washington.

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President-elect Donald Trump, who has alternated among praising, criticizing and mocking Jimmy Carter, came Wednesday to the Capitol Rotunda to pay his respects to Carter as the 39th president lies in state ahead of his funeral Thursday in the nation's capital.

President-elect Donald Trump paid his respects on Wednesday as President Jimmy Carter lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda as part of state funeral rites. Trump has alternated among praise, criticism and even mockery of the 39th president.

Donald and Melania Trump pay respects to Jimmy Carter as 39th president lies in state at Capitol President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump paid respects to former President Jimmy Carter as the 39th president lies in state inside the U.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with President-elect Donald Trump about a former law clerk the day before Trump went to the high court in a push to delay the sentencing in his New York hush-money case.

President-elect Trump appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to put off sentencing scheduled for Friday on his conviction for falsifying business records in the New York hush money case. And the Justice Department said it will release a portion of the special counsel's report on the Trump election interference case.