This should be fun. Coming off the healthcare debacle, popular vote loser Donald Trump is still searching for his first big win as pr*sident. Next up is tax reform and Team Trump isn't gonna make the mistake of letting the House steer its fortunes again. Politico writes:
The White House is eager to move on and hopes a more hands-on approach will avert another legislative failure — even if the details of the tax plan are far from figured out.
Just on Thursday, President Donald Trump huddled with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, senior strategist Steve Bannon, son-in-law and consigliere Jared Kushner and staffers from the National Economic Council and Treasury to delve into the various policy trade-offs and ways to structure a plan.
The key takeaway: The White House is not outsourcing these details to anyone, including the speaker of the House.
Absolutely. What the legislative process really needs is the slow, steady hand of the Donald—the guy who threatened to "fight" the Freedom Caucus last Thursday, name checked specific caucus members later that day, then turned around Sunday and hailed the "love and strength" of the Republican party.
Trump can't decide from one hour to the next whether he wants to cast aside the House maniacs and woo Democrats to notch some legislative wins, or whether making nicey nice with the House maniacs is the key to success. Maybe he can't even remember which tact he’s decided to take from one hour to the next.
But one thing is perfectly clear: He’s far better at making war on the many many enemies he imagines surround him at any given moment than he is at building bridges. Sure enough, Trump's paranoia-inspired erraticism has legislative success written all over it.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2nBJiHM
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