Trump’s erratic leadership is killing the GOP’s agenda

The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website July 18, 2017:

President Trump in Warsaw on July 6. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

While two Senate Republicans were effectively killing the latest iteration of the Senate health-care bill on Monday night, President Trump was having dinner with a group of other GOP senators — the wrong ones, it seems.

Later that evening, Trump tweeted that Republicans should repeal Obamacare immediately but delay its phasing out so they can pass a new plan. But by Tuesday morning, he seemed to have thrown in the towel on that idea, calling for Republicans to “let Obamacare fail” and then pass something. Never mind that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) already scheduled a vote on the first proposal for this week. Continue reading “Trump’s erratic leadership is killing the GOP’s agenda”