... shocking his worshipers into reality.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...st-100-days/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.9eab55edaa4b
Unless he can summon a miracle, President Trump is going to reach 100 days in office without getting anything on his wish list through Congress. And the fact we're measuring his failures by this timetable is largely his fault.
First, what he promised to get done but hasn't:
The biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan? The one page that the White House released on Wednesday, Day 97, certainly has a lot of tax cuts in it. But it's a sketch of a plan.
Repeal and replace Obamacare? Their first attempt to revise health care blew up in their faces. House Republicans are trying again, but there's no guarantee it can get through Congress — this week or any time. Also, nothing they're considering actually repeals Obamacare like Trump had promised to do.
And, irony alert: Trump will likely have to fund Obamacare subsidies that keep Obamacare alive.
A big, beautiful wall on the U.S.-Mexico border? Trump hasn't gotten a dime budgeted for it — from Mexico or from Congress. And the longer he goes without money for it, the less likely he is to actually get it.
Massive cuts in domestic programs to fund massive increases in military spending? Neither of those things will be reflected in this month's spending bill to keep the government open, and experts aren't sure these changes will ever pass Congress.
A $1 trillion infrastructure reform package: What infrastructure reform? This isn't even on Congress's radar right now.
Finally, Trump won't even sign a four-month spending bill to keep the government open for the rest of the fiscal year in his first 100 days. Congress looks likely to put off negotiations for another week by passing a one-week spending bill before the deadline Friday, Trump's 99th day in office.
"The things where he himself put timetables — tax reform, infrastructure, a real budget, repeal and replace — he's 0 for 4," said Steve Bell, a former GOP Senate budget aide now with the Bipartisan Policy Institute.
Trump's biggest only 100-day legislative victories aren't game plans he can follow to get anything above done, even in his first 1,000 days. He has signed more than a dozen laws rolling back Obama-era regulations on everything from guns to coal dumping to education. But the obscure law he and Republicans used to do it is only good for another month.
Read more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...st-100-days/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.9eab55edaa4b
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...st-100-days/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.9eab55edaa4b
Unless he can summon a miracle, President Trump is going to reach 100 days in office without getting anything on his wish list through Congress. And the fact we're measuring his failures by this timetable is largely his fault.
First, what he promised to get done but hasn't:
The biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan? The one page that the White House released on Wednesday, Day 97, certainly has a lot of tax cuts in it. But it's a sketch of a plan.
Repeal and replace Obamacare? Their first attempt to revise health care blew up in their faces. House Republicans are trying again, but there's no guarantee it can get through Congress — this week or any time. Also, nothing they're considering actually repeals Obamacare like Trump had promised to do.
And, irony alert: Trump will likely have to fund Obamacare subsidies that keep Obamacare alive.
A big, beautiful wall on the U.S.-Mexico border? Trump hasn't gotten a dime budgeted for it — from Mexico or from Congress. And the longer he goes without money for it, the less likely he is to actually get it.
Massive cuts in domestic programs to fund massive increases in military spending? Neither of those things will be reflected in this month's spending bill to keep the government open, and experts aren't sure these changes will ever pass Congress.
A $1 trillion infrastructure reform package: What infrastructure reform? This isn't even on Congress's radar right now.
Finally, Trump won't even sign a four-month spending bill to keep the government open for the rest of the fiscal year in his first 100 days. Congress looks likely to put off negotiations for another week by passing a one-week spending bill before the deadline Friday, Trump's 99th day in office.
"The things where he himself put timetables — tax reform, infrastructure, a real budget, repeal and replace — he's 0 for 4," said Steve Bell, a former GOP Senate budget aide now with the Bipartisan Policy Institute.
Trump's biggest only 100-day legislative victories aren't game plans he can follow to get anything above done, even in his first 1,000 days. He has signed more than a dozen laws rolling back Obama-era regulations on everything from guns to coal dumping to education. But the obscure law he and Republicans used to do it is only good for another month.
Read more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...st-100-days/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.9eab55edaa4b