Balance of Power: Did Trump’s First Year Just End?
McConnell's New Proposal to Repeal Obamacare Fails
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Barack Obama’s first year in office ended with a successful Christmas Eve Senate vote on what was to become his signature health care law. Donald Trump’s might be capped with...nothing at all.
After the drive to repeal Obamacare collapsed yesterday, Trump is more likely than ever to end 2017 without a single major legislative accomplishment. A $1 trillion infrastructure plan is little more than a talking point. Lawmakers ignored Trump’s budget proposal. And Republicans who control Congress haven’t even given him money to build his border wall. Trump and his team are clearly finding the business of governance anything but simple.