On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised his supporters “so much winning if I get elected that you may get bored with the winning.” Judged only by what President Trump has accomplished in Congress, his first nine months in office have failed to deliver on that promise.
Despite Republican majorities in the Senate and the House, the president’s greatest success in Congress has been the Senate’s confirmation of a growing roster of his conservative judicial nominees. The core of Trump’s legislative agenda, though, has yet to score a single victory. Efforts to repeal Obamacare have been thwarted so far by members of his own party in the Senate. And promised legislation on infrastructure and tax reform has not yet materialized.
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