Still, most Republicans shrug, chuckle, shake their heads at Trump. They’re happy with his cabinet appointments, at least. Publicly, they express a level of hope and certainty, what King calls the “huge, über euphoria” that’s going to rush over the country as soon as Trump swears the oath.
King said he knows what’s coming: not just in Obamacare and the Mexican border wall. The changes are going to go deep into Americans’ spines, literally—“the confidence that Donald Trump exudes—they will be able to tell us by our walk.”
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said that he’s been up late at night since the election, brushing up on a wide range of policy issues that now seem up for grabs, trying to reconcile his own fiscal conservatism with Trump’s agenda. It’s not easy to come up with a conservative way to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure that would make him comfortable with what Trump’s floated as his first big goal, Meadows said.
But Meadows insisted that people will be amazed at how much they’ll get done on repealing and replacing Obamacare, starting the border wall and sparking new job growth.
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