“We’ve been given a temporary lease on power, if you will”.
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“What the American people understand is that the only person standing in the way of Obamacare repeal is President Obama”, the Roswell Republican said in an interview Wednesday. His first 100 days plan after becoming the new President of the United States of America has been laid out.
But, as majority leader for the next two years and potentially longer, McConnell wasted little time on fanfare.
Congress advanced an Obamacare repeal bill to the White House for the first time past year using the reconciliation process, though Obama vetoed the measure. If Trump makes good on his campaign promises, he’ll wipe away much of what Obama has done during his eight years in office. It is quite possible that we will see many of these reversed as early as day one.
He’s expected to take aim at the Affordable Care Act known as “Obamacare”.
Earnest said “I’m not saying it’s going to be an easy meeting”. However, he will need first to get Congress to authorise the necessary funding that could run into hundreds of billions of dollars.
Here’s what one can expect from the “Donald Trump’s Contract With The American Voter”. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.
Propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. He congratulated Trump for his win.
Withdrawing from a treaty is well within the rights of the president and won’t require congressional approval.
On the flip side, McConnell could play a key role in the case of executive overreach by the new administration. He also plans to begin the removal of the 2 million illegal immigrants from the country.
However, some of Trump’s fellow Republicans have pointed out that deportation will come at a very high price to the government.
The Latest on the US election. The majority leader added that he would be “shocked if we didn’t move forward to keep our commitment to the American people”.
But Trump also vowed to replace the law with a program that would provide “great health care at a fraction of the health care cost”. (Try to picture a 1970s British vehicle and you get a sense of the pitfalls of overprotection of industry.) Across the pond, of course, Thatcher’s rise was paralleled by the ascendance of a free-market, free-trade-extolling American politician named Ronald Reagan who shared her contempt for the encroachments of the welfare state.
Under the auspices of restoring security and constitutional law, Trump plans to fill the seat left empty by Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities, deport “criminal immigrants” and suspend immigration from “terror-prone regions where vetting can not safely occur”.
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Netanyahu said Trump invited him to meet “at the first opportunity” in a phone call Wednesday.
