President Trump responds to McConnell: I don't have excessive expectations
President Trump knocked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday, questioning the Kentucky Republican’s reasoning for why Congress has been unable to repeal and replace Obamacare.
In an interview this week, McConnell had blamed Trump for setting “early timelines” and “excessive expectations” as one of the reasons that people believe Congress is getting nothing done.
But Trump said he didn’t think he had “excessive expectations.”
“After 7 years of hearing Repeal Replace, why not done?” he said on Twitter.
Senator Mitch McConnell said I had “excessive expectations,” but I don’t think so. After 7 years of hearing Repeal Replace, why not done?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 9, 2017
The president’s comments come after one of his aides attacked McConnell on Twitter.
“More excuses. @SenateMajLdr must have needed another 4 years — in addition to the 7 years — to repeal and replace Obamacare…..,†Dan Scavino Jr., Trump’s social media director, tweeted from his personal account Wednesday.
“Part of the reason I think is that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point,†McConnell said in Florence, Ky., on Tuesday. “Our new president has of course not been in this line of work before. And I think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the Democratic process.â€
Congress broke for their monthlong recess last week, leaving behind a largely unsuccessful first half of the year. Despite a GOP majority in both the House and Senate, few of Trump’s campaign promises have passed both chambers and made it to the president’s desk.
In the most high-profile fail, the Senate came one vote short of securing a “skinny repeal†of Obamacare last month. The bill would have removed some of Obamacare’s mandates but would have still needed to be reconciled with the House before it was sent to Trump.
The president has urged Congress to keep trying to repeal the health care law, but leaders, including McConnell, have suggested it is time to move on to tax reform.
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McConnell, accompanied by, from left, Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., John Thune, R-S.D., and John Ensign, R-Nev., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill on Jan. 27, 2009, after having lunch with President Obama.Â
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