Friday marks the beginning of the fourth month since the 119th Congress convened. It’s been 92 days now, and for such a quick start, lawmakers don’t have a ton to show for it.
Tensions are high in the Capitol. The House of Representatives managed to avert a government shutdown, pass the National Defense Authorization Act, and pass a bill recouping money from unemployment fraud, as well as its own version of the budget, but … that’s about it? With the Senate habitually and reliably doing its own things on its own schedule, there’s still no guarantee that this carefully hammered out, delicately negotiated budget will go as planned.
The first 100 days of any administration will be marked by rapid action, and the Senate
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