Donald Trump neither made friends nor influenced people on Capitol Hill

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    President Donald Trump began and ended his 70th day in office like so many others before it -- with a smattering of frustrated tweets.

    With Democrats united against him on the left and his new rift with conservatives on the right, the number of lawmakers Trump has to make a majority and pass meaningful legislation is small and getting smaller.
    On this occasion, his primary target was the House Freedom Caucus, a bloc of conservatives Trump blames for derailing his and the Republican leadership's deeply unpopular Obamacare overhaul. "We must fight them," he wrote in the morning, if they don't fall in line ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. By dinnertime, he was after it again, this time naming names.

    read more http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/31/politics/donald-trump-no-surprises/
     

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