'Republicans grappling with reality' after Trump pep talk gives them little direction

House Republicans huddled at the Kennedy Center – to which President Donald Trump's name has been affixed – to map out their legislative agenda for the coming year with a perilously thin majority.

The president delivered a start-of-year pep talk Tuesday that offered few specifics or focused priorities in his rambling, off-script hour-and-a-half speech, but he made clear that winning November's midterm elections was crucially important to him personally, reported The Hill.

“You got to win the midterms," Trump told lawmakers.