Trump set to end his first year without hitting a single major legislative goal
Washington — President Donald Trump is now more likely than ever to end his first year in office without a single major legislative accomplishment. His Obamacare repeal collapsed on Tuesday. He won’t even release the broad outlines of his tax overhaul plan until September — the last time Washington did a major tax bill, in 1986, it took more than a year. A $1-trillion infrastructure plan is little more than a talking point. Congress ignored his budget proposal. Republicans are as divided on all of these issues as they are on healthcare. Lawmakers haven’t even given him money to build his border wall. And between now and the end of the year, congress still has to approve more than $1-trillion in federal spending, pass a veterans healthcare bill, and navigate a debt-ceiling fight to avoid a potential default, all in the space of about a dozen working weeks. It doesn’t leave much time for legislating, even for a Republican president who came into office with a package of promises and a...
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