A GOP revolt threatens President Trump’s agenda
ON HIS 40TH DAY AS PRESIDENT, Donald Trump stepped up to the biggest megaphone his office provides—the prime-time joint address to Congress, a speech usually chock-full of real-life stories, uplifting rhetoric and promises of change. Trump followed the pattern too, pleading for new infrastructure projects, vastly more military spending and broad tax and trade overhauls. And he vowed to roll back the biggest leftover from the Obama era: “I am also calling on this Congress,” Trump said, “to repeal and replace Obamacare with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs and, at the same time, provide better health care.”
Republicans in the House chamber cheered so earnestly that it all sounded easy.
