- Safi Bello
Trump's sprawling agenda faces peril on both sides of the aisle
CNBC ----- Suddenly, President Donald Trump's legislative agenda is in deep trouble. On health care, the budget and tax reform, Trump faces strong resistance barely a month into his presidency. Though Republicans who control Congress have set a streamlined path designed to make Democrats irrelevant, disagreements within the GOP now threaten that plan across the board. The plan calls for repealing Obamacare and replacing it by mid-April, passing a fiscal 2018 budget and then enacting tax reform by August. That ambitious timetable sounds reasonable in light of recent history; by the end of February 2009, under new President Barack Obama, Democratic congressional majorities had already swept through a massive economic stimulus. To learn more about Trump's sprawling agenda facing peril on both sides of the aisle click on the picture below to read the article.