Donald Trump had the Washington stage to himself while Congress took a summer sojourn, but lawmakers return to a thick playbill — largely written by the president.
White House officials said in July, after Trump signed Republicans’ massive tax and domestic policy measure on Independence Day, that the president had not refilled his to-do list for Congress. In the weeks after Trump made the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” the law of the land, he pivoted to his global trade war, Texas flood relief efforts and a list of thorny foreign conflicts as he seeks the Nobel Peace Prize.
But Trump’s congressional wish list has filled out as lawmakers return this week from their annual summer recess. And to be sure, members will find a GOP president riding high after, in his own words, a number of victories since they left the capital city.
