President Trump took a few more shots Monday at his old nemesis - the pollsters who confidently predicted his loss past year - after new surveys were released playing up the president's low approval ratings at the end of his first 100 days. The first 100 days, the Times declared, is a period the president "might prefer to forget".
Trump long has advocated lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent. Some of them were aimed at unraveling regulations enacted late in Mr Obama's presidency in areas like teacher preparation, land management and federal procurement. In a tweet, he wrote no matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill!.
"None have been passed - not a single one - and nine haven't even been sent to the Congress", said Ronald Klain, who was a top White House aide under Mr Obama and President Bill Clinton. Republicans are reportedly eager to avoid a government shutdown on April 28, but the White House, as usual, is making things more hard by demanding that Democrats accede to funding for Trump's proposed border wall between the USA and Mexico-a multi-billion-dollar boondoggle that Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have refused to support.
"After listening for 10 minutes, I realized it's not so easy", Trump said after talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping about North Korea. You're doing just fine.
Over the first 100 days, we've seen a president who has failed to make the progress expected when the White House and Congress are controlled by the same party. George W. Bush's tax cuts were not signed until June and were partially repealed by his successor.
Among Trump's accomplishments: confirmation of his Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement.
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Trump last week called the 100 days timeline "an artificial barrier", but insisted he has accomplished a great deal during that time.
And on Saturday night, Trump will hold a campaign-style rally in Harrisburg, Pa., less than 50 miles from Gettysburg, where he made his 100-day compact with voters in October.
He underscored the message by dropping the MOAB (a.k.a. "Mother of All Bombs") on an Islamic State hideout in Afghanistan and by deploying the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group (after a brief detour off the coast of Australia) to the Korean Peninsula. Critics say undoing the actions of previous administration is not a legislative achievement.
The reason Trump was able to shock the political world was because polls missed some movement on the state level, which allowed the Republican to build a path to victory with wins in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and MI.
Of course, there is much more to do.
Although the 100-day measuring stick is often disparaged as arbitrary, research has shown that presidents have more ability to achieve goals they set early in their terms, said Julia Azari, a political science professor at Marquette University in Wisconsin.
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