Aside from not helping the majority leader hold this Alabama seat, Trump is now complicating McConnell’s life by threatening Republican senators like Dean Heller and Lisa Murkowski over their health care votes, tweeting about how efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare aren’t finished “unless the Republican Senators are total quitters,” threatening to end “bailouts for insurance companies” (a continuation of his threat to let Obamacare fail), and urging Republicans to drop the legislative filibuster—a move McConnell believes would backfire when Republicans are in the minority.
Having failed to pass any major legislation in his first six months, President Trump should be reevaluating his legislative process, just as he is reevaluating management of the West Wing.
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