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The White House spent March 31 trying to reframe its failed health-care push as everybody else’s fault, but the damage was already baked in. The collapse exposed weakness inside the Republican coalition, undercut Trump’s image as a dealmaker, and left the administration with a credibility problem on its first major legislative test.
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The White House spent March 31 trying to reframe its failed health-care push as everybody else’s fault, but the damage was already baked in. The collapse exposed weakness inside the Republican coalition, undercut Trump’s image as a dealmaker, and left the administration with a credibility problem on its first major legislative test.
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The White House spent March 31 trying to reframe its failed health-care push as everybody else’s fault, but the damage was already baked in. The collapse exposed weakness inside the Republican coalition, undercut Trump’s image as a dealmaker, and left the administration with a credibility problem on its first major legislative test.
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