Trump's outlook going from bad to worse
By [URL='http://www.cnn.com/profiles/stephen-collinson']Stephen Collinson, CNN[/URL]
Updated 5:08 AM ET, Thu March 30, 2017
(CNN)As the White House scans Washington for a bounce-back win after the Obamacare imbroglio, the political forecast is promising only heavy weather.
An unappetizing list of looming congressional showdowns, complex, months-long legislative challenges and intractable threats to President Donald Trump's standing threaten to make the failed health care push look like a small setback.
Source: Kushner meeting with Russian bank exec was effort to 'engage with' Russia
Approaching sagas of a potential government shutdown, raising the debt ceiling and a moment of truth in the Senate over the potential "nuclear option" confirmation of Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch will severely test the political alacrity of a White House already exposed by the busted bid to repeal Obamacare.
The administration is promising aggressive efforts to pass a generational tax reform bill and a bipartisan infrastructure package, though the current Washington environment suggests neither effort will be simple.
Throw in the corrosive impact that the thickening cloud of intrigue over Russia's alleged election meddling is exerting on the White House, and add the challenges posed by the President's own habit of detonating political explosions that damage his own standing, and it's tough to predict the administration's first big political win -- or how much that victory will cost.
"Nobody ever told me that politics was going to be so much fun," Trump declared, perhaps ironically, at a White House reception for senators on Tuesday night.
The challenges facing the new administration are testing enough. But they appear to be compounded by the unorthodox and inexperienced West Wing staff and organizational chaos.
Liberal voters push Democrats to a new nuclear age
Almost daily, stories seep out of the administration about feuding between top officials and rival centers of power around Trump, including the camp led by political advisor Stephen Bannon and the family inner circle comprising his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka Trump, who announced Wednesday she would take an unpaid staff position.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/trump-outlook/index.html
By [URL='http://www.cnn.com/profiles/stephen-collinson']Stephen Collinson, CNN[/URL]
Updated 5:08 AM ET, Thu March 30, 2017
(CNN)As the White House scans Washington for a bounce-back win after the Obamacare imbroglio, the political forecast is promising only heavy weather.
An unappetizing list of looming congressional showdowns, complex, months-long legislative challenges and intractable threats to President Donald Trump's standing threaten to make the failed health care push look like a small setback.
Source: Kushner meeting with Russian bank exec was effort to 'engage with' Russia
Approaching sagas of a potential government shutdown, raising the debt ceiling and a moment of truth in the Senate over the potential "nuclear option" confirmation of Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch will severely test the political alacrity of a White House already exposed by the busted bid to repeal Obamacare.
The administration is promising aggressive efforts to pass a generational tax reform bill and a bipartisan infrastructure package, though the current Washington environment suggests neither effort will be simple.
Throw in the corrosive impact that the thickening cloud of intrigue over Russia's alleged election meddling is exerting on the White House, and add the challenges posed by the President's own habit of detonating political explosions that damage his own standing, and it's tough to predict the administration's first big political win -- or how much that victory will cost.
"Nobody ever told me that politics was going to be so much fun," Trump declared, perhaps ironically, at a White House reception for senators on Tuesday night.
The challenges facing the new administration are testing enough. But they appear to be compounded by the unorthodox and inexperienced West Wing staff and organizational chaos.
Liberal voters push Democrats to a new nuclear age
Almost daily, stories seep out of the administration about feuding between top officials and rival centers of power around Trump, including the camp led by political advisor Stephen Bannon and the family inner circle comprising his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka Trump, who announced Wednesday she would take an unpaid staff position.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/trump-outlook/index.html