The election, and recounts, are over. Cabinet nominees are being announced. Some 4,000 job openings will need to be filled across the federal government. Republicans "control" both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Now is a good time to ask: What's next?
Repealing and replacing Obamacare, tax reform, infrastructure spending, immigration reform, reversing the outgoing Administration's climate agenda and, of course, dealing with the work left behind by the previous Congress will top the Republican agenda in the first 100 days and beyond.
Dentons' US Policy Scan 2017 provides our annual analysis of the legislative and political landscape under a new Congress and, this year, a new Presidential Administration. In addition to taking a close look at the issues, questions and conflicts that will dominate the dialogue within and between the new White House and Capitol Hill, we also offer a review of legislative and policy developments in the statehouses across the US.
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