April 3, 2017 6:00 AM
GOP infighting turns ominous for Trump and the GOP agenda
By Andrew Malcolm
The political disaster that was the non-repeal of Obamacare last month was bad enough. But now its recriminatory aftershocks, fully joined by President Trump himself, augur ill for the future of the Republican agenda this year – and maybe beyond.
The president was understandably frustrated in his first major legislative campaign. He worked the phones late most nights to round up GOP votes to pass the imperfect, long-promised repeal out of the House.
He had nearly a score of individual White House meetings and social occasions with House members, mainly the recalcitrant rogues of the so-called Freedom Caucus. Trump even made an unusual presidential trip to Capitol Hill just to lobby.
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