WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump stormed back into office with a shock-and-awe policy blitz that expanded presidential power and reshaped America’s relations with the world. But it has come at a steep cost: as he enters the New Year and midterm elections loom, his once unshakeable hold on Republicans is slipping, say historians and analysts. Back in January, as Trump triumphantly returned to the White House for a second term, he vowed to remake the economy, the federal bureaucracy, immigration policy and much of US cultural life.

As the president addresses the nation, unemployment is edging up, his job approval is edging down. And the midterms? Don't ask.

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump stormed back into office with a shock-and-awe policy blitz that expanded presidential power and reshaped America’s relations with the world. But…

Some Republican lawmakers are rebelling, and opinion polls show a growing number of voters are unhappy.