President Donald Trump expressed optimism about negotiations in Congress to push forward his agenda on taxes and immigration, declaring that his party’s political movement will have lasting staying power in Washington.

One reason to believe that Trump is governing like a Republican is that he acted like this last time. In addition to the sterling conservative credentials of the 200 or so judges he appointed, his first administration’s primary agenda was generically Republican: a tax cut, border enforcement, and aggressive attempts at deregulation.