Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Trump Keeps Getting Rolled by His Own Cabinet

The president's Puerto Rico bailout was nixed by his budget chief, and that's just the latest rejection.

October 4, 2017 at 4:17 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

Just say no.
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Puerto Rico's debt has been a major problem for years. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump supported a solution:

It only took hours for White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney to knock down the whole idea. “We are not going to bail them out," he said. "We are not going to pay off those debts. We are not going to bail out those bond holders." Odds are it's dead.