The Trump-McConnell bond is being tested. So is the GOP agenda.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has occasionally remarked on his unusual relationship with President Trump: Unlike most congressional leaders, he has managed to escape Trump’s wrath.
“He’s never, as far as I can tell, gotten angry at me — in my presence, anyway,” McConnell said last month.
That fragile peace between a taciturn insider and a brash newcomer has helped both men pursue Republican priorities, but it faces an uncertain future this week as a major rewrite of the nation’s health-care laws falters in the Senate. McConnell and Trump are both hungry for a win. Their understanding, built to score legislative victories, does neither of them any good if victories remain out of reach.
McConnell has largely taken responsibility for ushering the sweeping GOP rewrite of the Affordable Care Act through the Senate. Should that legislation stall this week — at least half a dozen Republican senators remain wary of the bill — the cost could be not only fury from the party’s conservative base but deeper questions about the durability of the McConnell-Trump alliance.
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