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. |