Trump learns that dealmaking is not the same as leadership
By Karen Tumulty March 24 at 7:06 PM
President Trump has gotten a hard lesson from his first legislative debacle: Leadership takes more than being able to close a deal.
“I hope that Trump is going to learn from this that he has no choice except to be the chief legislator,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich. “Trump has to start with the American people and come back to Congress. He can’t start with arcane congressional procedures and go to the American people. That is exactly backward.”
Nothing has more united Republicans over the past seven years than their vow to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
But Trump provided little by way of specifics on how he intended to do that, beyond vague and sometimes contradictory statements.
As a candidate and as president, Trump stuck to glossy promises of a transformed medical system that would be “a lot less expensive,” provide “great health care” and “take care of everybody.”
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