Another Trump crisis craters GOP agenda
I think Republicans are working to get ACA and tax bills done as fast as they can--to hell with the people or what they think!!---before things blow up too much. Just saying.
Another Trump crisis craters GOP agenda
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/trump-gop-agenda-stalled/index.html
By Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated 2:36 AM ET, Tue May 16, 2017
Wash. Post: Trump told Russians classified info 02:02
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"They are in a downward spiral right now," Corker said
"We are in a holding pattern," a senior Republican congressional aide told CNN
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's governing agenda, which only 10 days ago showed signs of gaining steam, appears to have derailed after he allegedly shared classified information and dismissed FBI director James Comey, both of which threaten to alienate Republicans while bogging down the White House once again.
Hours after The Washington Post reported Trump shared information about terror plots with Russian officials in the Oval Office, alarmed lawmakers on Capitol Hill were pressing the White House for an explanation.
Conversations with more than a dozen key Republicans across Washington, from the administration to industry lobbyists to Capitol Hill, suggest one of their biggest frustrations is the President's failure to sell the party's agenda.
"We are in a holding pattern," a senior Republican congressional aide told CNN. "They blocked any momentum Republicans had built."
Despite looming decisions on climate change and Afghanistan, and major pieces of his agenda sitting with Congress, Trump spent the bulk of the past week defending himself in interviews and on Twitter, while venting that his staff had failed to sell his decision to fire Comey to the American public.
No clear path for Trump to quell uproar over Comey
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Yet the White House insists it is pressing forward with the agenda that Trump ran for office promising, which Republicans are counting on, so they have something to show voters next year. But privately, even many people inside the White House concede the crisis fallout has, for now, shifted the conversation in the West Wing.
"It's hard to move on when that's what he's focused on," said one White House aide.
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