First months of Trump, GOP Congress produce few victories
First months of Trump, GOP Congress produce few victories
Trump's top priority — repealing and replacing former President Barack Obama's landmark health care law — ran aground in the House in spite of Republican opposition to "Obamacare," the first time in recent memory that a newly elected president's first big initiative had imploded so spectacularly.
Looking ahead, prospects for health care are at best dicey, while other initiatives such as tax reform, infrastructure spending and implementing Trump's unpopular proposal for spending cuts aren't ready for prime time yet.
Other repealed regulations involve hunting regulations in Alaska, allowing states to drug test people seeking unemployment benefits, and potentially allowing internet providers to sell the browsing habits of their customers.
Beyond those measures are a handful of others, including a routine NASA authorization bill and legislation to make permanent a program that encourages private sector technology experts to temporarily join federal agencies to lend their expertise.
None of these accomplishments has gotten much attention amid blaring headlines on investigations into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, the meltdown in the GOP-controlled House over health care and repeated reports of Trump missteps and White House infighting.