The White House’s effort to jam through Obamacare repeal was still running into internal GOP resistance on March 18, 2017, with the political damage becoming obvious enough to count as a real governing stumble. Trump had spent days leaning on Republicans to fall in line, but the bill remained unpopular inside his own party and weak enough that lawmakers were openly warning about the fallout. The bigger problem was not just legislative math; it was that Trump had sold the thing as easy, fast, and near-miraculous, and reality kept arriving with a subpoena for the fantasy.
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The White House’s effort to jam through Obamacare repeal was still running into internal GOP resistance on March 18, 2017, with the political damage becoming obvious enough to count as a real governing stumble. Trump had spent days leaning on Republicans to fall in line, but the bill remained unpopular inside his own party and weak enough that lawmakers were openly warning about the fallout. The bigger problem was not just legislative math; it was that Trump had sold the thing as easy, fast, an…
The White House’s effort to jam through Obamacare repeal was still running into internal GOP resistance on March 18, 2017, with the political damage becoming obvious enough to count as a real governing stumble. Trump had spent days leaning on Republicans to fall in line, but the bill remained unpopular inside his own party and weak enough that lawmakers were openly warning about the fallout. The bigger problem was n…
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