The following article by Philip Rucker, Sean Sullivan and Mike DeBonis was posted on the Washington Post website August 24, 2017:
The Fix’s Amber Phillips explains the tight deadlines Congress faces this fall, and how President Trump’s shutdown threat over funding his border wall and his criticism of the debt ceiling “mess” threaten their agenda.(Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
President Trump is strategically separating himself from Republicans in Congress, an extraordinary move to deflect blame if the GOP agenda continues to flounder.
Trump deepened the fissures in the party on Thursday when he accused the top two leaders on Capitol Hill of mismanaging a looming showdown over the nation’s borrowing authority. Republican lawmakers and aides responded to the president’s hostility with broadsides and warnings of their own. Continue reading “Trump distances himself from GOP lawmakers to avoid blame if agenda stalls”