As the Trump presidency completes its first 10 weeks, the administration is celebrating big wins on the regulatory reform front while nursing some wounds from a major defeat on efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While health care reform is on pause for the moment, Republicans are turning to tax reform as the next major policy priority and continuing to use executive orders (EO) and the Congressional Review Act to roll back Obamaera regulations. Funding for the government expires on April 28, 2017, so Republicans and Democrats will face the first test of bipartisanship in the next few weeks as they seek to fund government agencies, including the Department of Defense, through the end of September. All eyes will be on the Senate next week as the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch takes center stage.
Here are 10 things that we believe are worth focusing on from the last two weeks:
1. Gorsuch Nomination
2. Possible Repeal of ISP Security Rules
3. TSA's New Restrictions on Electronic Devices
4. "Energy Independence" Executive Order
5. Secretary Tillerson in Asia
6. Bilateral Trade and NAFTA Renegotiations
7. FDA User Fees Reauthorization
8. Fiduciary Rule
9. USTR Reports
10. Congressional Appropriations Preview
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