It’s the beginning of a big week for Washington. Congress returns from recess while the Trump administration prepares for its 100th day on Saturday. The campaign had made much of this initial period of a Trump presidency, releasing a “Contract with the American Voter” before the election that outlined a “100-day action plan to Make America Great Again.”
President Trump himself is now downplaying the 100-day marker as an “artificial barrier” and “not very meaningful.” That’s the smart play since, for starters, it happens to be true. Secondly, the president hasn’t accomplished much of his proposed 100-day agenda, and he isn’t likely to do that this week. So best to lower expectations and emphasize the areas where the administration believes they have been successful: the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, the withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, the federal hiring freeze, and a fruitful summit with Chinese president Xi Jinping, among others.
