Congress returns in January to face several challenging issues with pressing deadlines, including funding the federal government for the rest of FY 2018, raising the debt limit, extensions of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a disaster relief bill, bipartisan legislation to stabilize Obamacare, and a legislative solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The 2018 mid-term elections will dominate political discussion and complicate any attempts at agreement between the two parties on these types of issues because of the possibility that control in either chamber could flip as a result of the elections.
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