President-elect Donald Trump will begin his second nonconsecutive term with Republican control of both chambers of Congress, including a 53-47 Senate majority. However, the House Republican majority is likely no higher than a narrow 221-214, or perhaps a seat more.
Still, the former and future president’s victories in both the Electoral College and the popular vote grant him a resounding mandate to govern. To make the most of the moment, the momentum, and the popular mandate to fix the economic disaster left behind by retiring President Joe Biden and Trump’s vanquished 2024 rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, he would be wise to prioritize preserving and expanding the economic legacy from his first 2017-2021 term and doing so within the (relative) grace period of his first 100 days back in the Oval Office.
That means making Trump’s landmark 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act…
