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Saturday, December 21, 2024
Congress avoids a shutdown but leaves 'a big mess' for Trump and Republicans

Congress struck an 11th-hour deal to avert a government shutdown during the holidays, but it lengthened an already extensive to-do list for the first year of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to office.

The turmoil of the week previews the legislative chaos that awaits Washington in the second Trump administration when the incoming president faces a wide range of major deadlines and ambitions that include another government funding deadline in March, raising the debt limit to avoid a calamitous default and getting his Cabinet picks confirmed in the Senate.

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