Good morning.
It's Thursday, January 23rd.
I'm Shemitha Basu. This is Apple News Today.
On Today's Show,
how the ACLU is gearing up for the next four years under Trump,
the case for award season to go on amid the LA fires,
and drama between the players and the media at the Australian Open.
But first,
President Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders in his first few days in office,
touching everything from immigration to international trade to transgender rights and more.
It can give the impression, as the early days of many administrations do,
that a president alone can run the government by signing orders behind a desk.
That, of course, isn't true,
and President Trump will need Congress to move much of his agenda forward.
Republicans seem ready to do that,
but with a very narrow majority in the House and a growing rift between GOP leadership in both chambers,
there's likely to be some internal party tension around how to achieve Trump's policy goals.
So there's still a dispute, and honestly,
a growing clash within the Republican Party that's been going on for about a month and a half now,
and there's no path to a resolution here.