Amid Firestorms, Trump Has Year of Solid Policy Accomplishments. Can He Keep Going?
18th December 2017
Byron York looks at the scorecard.
Assume that tax reform passes and is signed into law. If in, say, 2014, a Republican, of either the conservative or moderate variety, predicted that in 2017 a newly-elected GOP president and Congress would —
- Cut corporate and individual taxes.
- Repeal the Obamacare individual mandate.
- Appoint a highly-respected conservative to the Supreme Court.
- Appoint a one-year record number of judges to the circuit courts.
- Get rid of reams of unnecessary regulations.
- Destroy ISIS.
- Approve pipeline projects and new oil drilling.
— then a lot of Republicans would probably have cheered. Loudly.
But it’s Trump, so we have to remember that he has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in his first year in office.