What Can Congress Get Done?

Playbook: “Consider what’s going on in the oversight realm — the back and forth between the administration and Congress, lawsuits in the offing and impeachment looking incrementally more likely — and ask yourself this question: What can Congress possibly get done?”

“Here’s what needs to be acccomplished in the coming months: finalizing a disaster aid package, lifting the debt limit and, in less than five months, passing a government funding bill. Will the oversight wars affect Democrats’ ability to do basic business with the president? We suspect they will.”

“Remember what people want to accomplish: Infrastructure — but that seems unlikely, two weeks before the president is meant to lay out how he plans to pay for the $2 trillion plan. President Trump wants a drug pricing reform bill. And the White House still has designs on replacing NAFTA with the USMCA. The mood and the vibe on the Hill is as bad as it has been in some time.”