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title: "December 2016"
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#  December 2016

##  [REPUBLICAN SWEEP OFFERS HOPE FOR EMPLOYER RELIEF](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=420:republican-sweep-offers-hope-for-employer-relief&catid=139)

December 05, 2016 | [December 2016](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=139)

In what some have called the most surprising election of our era, Donald Trump is expected to win the electoral college vote (306-222) to become our next President (although he lost the popular vote by almost one million votes to Hillary Clinton). In the Senate, it appears that Republicans will lose only two Senate seats (although there were many more…

[Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=420:republican-sweep-offers-hope-for-employer-relief&catid=139)

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