Thune's comments come as Trump is getting inaugurated on Jan. 20, with Trump planning to issue 10 executive orders on his first day in office.

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As for the fire-aid-for-debt-limit trade, GOP lawmakers who first raised the idea with Trump at recent Mar-a-Lago meetings said he was interested in the prospect at the time. That would mean making a debt limit hike part of a larger agreement around the bipartisan government funding talks.