Mitch McConnell laments Trump’s ‘excessive expectations’ for perception Congress is unproductive

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is blaming President Trump’s “excessive expectations” for what he considers an unjust perception that Congress, under his leadership, has not been productive.

“Part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point,” McConnell told a Rotary Club gathering in Kentucky Monday.

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