On the Trump-Schumer-Pelosi deal: Clearly a temporary alliance toward an immediate goal. 1/
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Next, Trump saw September calendar overflowing. Budget, debt ceiling, now hurricanes. How much time left for tax reform? 5/
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After Obamacare failure, tax reform is whole ball game. Best policy tool to keep Trump promise of more jobs at higher wages. 6/
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So Trump saw Fall slipping away in fighting with tax reform undone. Debt ceiling? They always raise it after much posturing. Just do it. 7/
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Hurricane relief? Let the conservative guys talk about offsets, Trump is going to want to shovel money out the door, fast. 8/
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So Trump entered into temporary alliance with Dems to get debt ceiling, spending off table, clear way for tax reform. 9/
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Doesn't mean it's gonna work. Trump's good friends Chuck and Nancy will fight him tooth and nail. But deal gives Trump, GOP time. 10/
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Then, come December, Trump's good friends Chuck and Nancy will slam him during next debt ceiling fight. 11/
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But for now, Trump has a window to get tax reform, and that's the big thing. For him and the GOP. 12/
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By the way, Trump knows if circumstances change, his new best friends Chuck and Nancy will be leading charge to remove him from office. 13/
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If that happens, Trump will need his former best friends Paul and Mitch to save him. 14/
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But that's next year. Right now, Trump saw a temporary alliance as the answer, and that's what he did. End.
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I don't know if they'll be here when he's gone. I think he's telling his supporters to drop Mitch & Ryan. Watch Fox. They are w/ Trump.
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The Branch will be there but the lawmakers will not be there.
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Don't count on that. Lots of people are fed up with Congress, including their own congressmen.
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Trump treats them like the incompetent branch of government that they are. I'm enjoying this. Just what I voted for.
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Wrong. He is treating them as the traitors to their voters that they are.
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Byron you a made a mistake. Many of those lawmakers will in fact be gone before Trump. I include Ryan and McConnell in that analysis.
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I for one kinda like that approach. This is where Trump's lack of ideology kicks in. He wants to accomplish things. Good things I hope....
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Or will not be there after 2018.
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