WASHINGTON (AP) A brutal reality is settling over Capitol Hill: The Republican effort to repeal and replace ”Obamacare,” which has consumed the first six months of the Trump administration, may never yield results.
Not only that, the GOP goal of overhauling the tax code requires passing a budget that is months overdue. That means success on the tax front is highly uncertain, despite happy talk from House Speaker Paul Ryan and others.
Promised infrastructure legislation is nowhere.
And a government shutdown already looms as a possibility in the fall, given slow movement on the annual spending bills needed to fund government.