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They fell back on their timeworn, futile tactic of ceding the spotlight to Trump.

Trump, as a candidate and as president-elect, has said he wants a speedy end to the fighting, while Ukraine fears it will be forced to make painful concessions, including ceding territory Russia has already seized.

A federal retreat from those policies will make the United States less competitive by ceding leadership on clean energy technology to China, Europe and other rivals.

Now, members of the Senate will face another test: Whether to cede their long-held independent authority under the Constitution to review an increasingly controversial group of Cabinet picks.

President-elect Donald Trump returned to Washington to meet with the sitting president as well as a Congress that is expected to cede him even more power than he had in his first term.