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2 verified reports published on December 14, 2017.
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December 14 was a clean little snapshot of the Trump method: declare victory, hand the hard part to subordinates, and then act surprised when the bill comes due. The politics were loud, the policy was brittle, and the consequences landed exactly where critics said they would.
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The FCC voted to repeal net neutrality rules, triggering immediate outrage from consumer advocates, tech firms, and Democrats who saw the move as a giveaway to internet providers. The White House had backed the rollback, but the political cost was already obvious: the administration was now tied to a deeply unpopular internet power grab.
Marco Rubio’s threat to oppose the GOP tax bill unless the child tax credit was expanded showed how thin Trump’s legislative coalition really was. The White House tried to wave it off, but the episode underscored that the president’s promised tax triumph was still hanging on one brittle vote after another.