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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue May 20, 2025, 12:39 PM May 20

CNN kisses the (T)rump. A double challenge is putting Trump's credibility on the line

Donald Trump this week faces two challenges — one at home and the other abroad — that will test his self-crafted mythology as a master dealmaker and his capacity to achieve real and enduring change.

The president is heaping pressure on the brittle Republican House majority to overcome internal divides to pass the “big, beautiful bill” that contains his top domestic priorities. And his so-far failed effort to bring peace to Ukraine will reach a new pivot point during a telephone call Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has snubbed Trump’s initiative despite the administration’s deferential treatment.

Trump’s spending bill is his best chance to transform the country — at least using conventional and constitutional means — because changing the law will be more enduring than his blitz of executive orders. He means to cut taxes, fund his mass deportation plans and add tens of billions of dollars to defense spending.

But steep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance demanded by fiscal conservatives are alienating more moderate Republicans on whose seats the GOP majority depends. The fight therefore cuts right along the fault lines of the Trump coalition and could require a more forceful presidential intervention later this week.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/double-challenge-putting-trump-credibility-040050594.html

Putting your mouth on another person's asshole is very unsanitary CNN.

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CNN kisses the (T)rump. A double challenge is putting Trump's credibility on the line (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 20 OP
Read the entire article at link. I don't see a lot possitive about trump. The last paragraph sums it up accurately. Silent Type May 20 #1

Silent Type

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1. Read the entire article at link. I don't see a lot possitive about trump. The last paragraph sums it up accurately.
Tue May 20, 2025, 12:46 PM
May 20

"Yet early in Trump’s new term, there is not much evidence in his so-far fruitless peace brokering in the Middle East or Ukraine to support the administration’s incessant puffing up of the president.

"And until the “big, beautiful bill” lands on his desk, his legislative record is looking as unimpressive as it did during his first term."

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