A Republican Congress will try to roll back financial, environmental and healthcare legislation in 2015-16, but compromise with the president, Barack Obama, is possible on energy, tax and trade policy.
The path of fiscal policy was largely set by a series of budget agreements in early 2013. A combination of economic growth, spending restraint and some tax rises will reduce the federal budget deficit to 1.9% of GDP by 2018.

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