Clyde Grazales

Their marquee tax and spending plan they called the one big beautiful bill which became law, they would argue.

That is the key legislation that passed, but the jury's still out if this is going to have the advertised impact on the economy.

And it was the exception to the rule.

Congress ceded a lot of its power to the president this year.

That included dismantling large sections of the federal government.

taking over the power of the purse during the government shutdown by directing spending that was prohibited at that time and triggering the clawback of billions of spending that had been approved by Congress.