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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 02:32 PM Apr 2017

A bumpy 100 days? 1361 to follow

Susan Page , USA TODAY
8:36 a.m. ET April 23, 2017

... what Trump will do on key issues .. remains the subject of debate and dispute among his advisers ... Just how he'll manage to put together a governing coalition in Congress is unclear, with a test looming over passing a spending bill to avert a government shutdown at the end of the week.

He submitted nominations for just 24 of the 554 administration appointments requiring Senate confirmation ... 20 have been confirmed. That's a small fraction of the number named by his predecessors; at this point, Obama had submitted 190 nominations and 69 had been confirmed. That slow pace has complicated efforts to set and implement policies in departments where the Cabinet secretary may be the only political appointee in the building.

And he has done little to win over voters who didn't support him on Election Day ...


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/23/president-trump-bumpy-first-100-days/100655420/

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