Trump’s hardball tactics backfire as ‘skinny repeal’ goes down
President Trump’s attacks on Republican senators are finally catching up with him, and Lisa Murkowski will not be bullied.
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Growing GOP backlash to transgender troop ban underscores Trump’s political miscalculation
Reflecting how dramatically the national conversation on LGBTQ rights has shifted in recent years, Trump's ban on transgender troops drew swift rebukes from top Senate Republicans.
Senate Republicans still face narrow path to pass health-care bill after procedural victory
Mitch McConnell is like a quarterback who has just converted on fourth-and-long. The Senate majority leader kept the drive to repeal Obamacare alive, but he’s still trailing by a touchdown, the game clock keeps ticking down and a win is not inevitable.
Trump’s pick to run DOJ criminal division worked for Russia bank
Almost every day, it feels like someone else in the administration’s orbit gets sucked into the Russian vortex.
Trump marginalizes experts, debases expertise
President Trump has repeatedly dismissed the knowledge and wisdom of experts while elevating non-experts who lack relevant experience into important jobs across the federal government.
Asking about a pardon for himself is a quintessentially Trumpian move
Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe.
Trump shows disdain for rule of law
President Trump attacks his own attorney general, the Russia investigation and the special counsel.
Teflon Trump gets less blame for Obamacare fail than Senate GOP
As Republicans all but admit defeat in their seven-year quest to overturn the Affordable Care Act, the president made one thing clear yesterday: “I’m not going to own it.”
Republicans don’t have the votes to repeal Obamacare after Senate bill falls apart
A last-gasp Hail Mary for full repeal of Obamacare appears certain to fail. There are not the votes in either chamber of Congress.
Only 1 in 4 Americans strongly support Trump
President Trump is not Teflon, and the conventional wisdom that “nothing matters” is wrong.
Trump’s children become bigger liabilities for the White House
You can’t fire family.
Trump is the disrupter-in-chief in an age of disruption
Like Uber, the president won by cutting corners and now pays a price.
Dysfunction followed the Trumps from the campaign to the White House
The Trumps struggle to take personal responsibility.
Email to Donald Trump Jr. could be a smoking gun
The president's son hires a criminal defense attorney amidst new revelations about what he knew before meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower last year.
Perils of speaking for a president who constantly changes his story
Debut edition: Trying to keep up with someone who routinely shifts his story often leaves White House surrogates holding the bag. Sunday brought three fresh illustrations of how perilous it can be to speak for Trump.
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