The Entire Trump Agenda Is at a Tipping Point

By artappraiser on Thu, 06/29/2017 - 1:07pm |

[....] The G.O.P. has adopted a major—even radical—agenda: transforming a massive sector of the economy, slashing taxes and rewriting the entire tax code, passing a budget that would dramatically reduce the size of government, and, in the middle of all of that, raising the debt limit. They have a plan to accomplish almost all of it before the end of the year, with minimal transparency, and without relying on a single Democratic vote. But if health-care reform goes down this summer, the rest of the plan may sink with it.

For obscure parliamentary reasons, Republicans can’t move on with the rest of their wish list until they pass the health-care bill. And those prospects are not looking good. On Tuesday [....]

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http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/the-entire-trump-agenda-is-at-a-tipping-point