As we enter the second half of the Trump administration’s first 100 days, the White House and congressional Republicans are expected to continue their push for regulatory reform, and all eyes will be on the Senate Judiciary Committee later this month as the Senate begins consideration of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Funding the federal government beyond April 28, 2017, will be one of the first major tests of whether Republicans and Democrats can work together to get 60 votes in the Senate. Finally, one issue that will continue to grow in urgency in the coming months is the debt limit. The Treasury’s statutory power to raise the limit expires on March 16, 2017, but the administration will deploy “extraordinary measures” to push back the actual default date to later in the year, buying Congress additional time to act.
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