Trump Seems Clueless on How to Get Agenda Through Congress

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It has been obvious from the moment the GOP narrowly won control of the House and the Senate in the 2024 election that budget reconciliation would be the primary strategy for implementing Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. Reconciliation bills can be enacted on party-line votes, and Senate Democrats can’t use the filibuster to block them. This is how Republicans enacted Trump’s tax cuts in 2017, and how Democrats enacted Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan...