“When you get Rand Paul on your side, it has to be positive, that I can tell you,” President Trump said at Thursday’s signing ceremony for his new executive order easing Obamacare rules. “Boy.”

Trump and the independent-minded Kentucky Republican senator have been on the same side more than ever seemed likely during the presidential campaign.

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