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Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama isn't giving Republicans time to catch their breath after celebrating an election triumph.

He barnstormed into action following Tuesday's midterm elections, pushing his priorities before Republican leaders can frame their agenda for the new Congress, which convenes in January.

Obama challenged congressional leaders he met over lunch Friday to back his expanding war against ISIS. The President plans to send up to 1,500 more soldiers to train Iraqi and Kurdish forces while asking Congress for another $5.6 billion to fund the war.

On another front for the busy White House, Obama will name Loretta Lynch on Saturday as his pick to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder. She would be the first African American woman to hold the post and her selection will force Republican leaders to consider whether to mount a confirmation battle.

Obama is also pressing lawmakers to approve $6 billion in emergency funding to fight Ebola before they leave Washington for the holidays. And the Presidents will head to Asia this weekend to show his authority on the world stage has not been splintered by the Republican electoral rout.

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The president is operating from a playbook weeks in the making by Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, which takes him through the lame duck session of Congress and his penultimate State of the Union address in January.

One of his next moves, aides say, will be to use his executive power to reshape the nation's immigration system before the end of the year, despite Republican claims he will "poison the well" for future cooperation.

But Obama's time to wield the initiative will be brief. Come next year, he will be hit with a blizzard of bills from the new Republican Congress, including efforts to dismember his signature health care law and policies on climate change.

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Obama's post-election strategy