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Not exactly a vote of confidence in the administration's priorities in renegotiating NAFTA, which started like an hour ago.

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It was already clear that nothing of substance is going to come out of the NAFTA talks, both because nobody in business or agriculture wants it (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/15/trump-win-nafta-tal...) and because nobody is impressed by Trump anymore: just like the rest of the world, Canada and Mexico have figured out that he's all bluster and folds like a cheap tent as soon as you say "No".

It was already clear that nothing of substance...was going to come out of this entire 4 year term... I think you meant to say..

Only if we're lucky. Repealing obamacare without a replacement came within a single vote.

True, but that carried a lot of Republican support and was not just a Trump initiative.

Yeah, the congress and senate might actually accomplish something (for good or evil), but the president is just a side show to keep people distracted and drum up ad revenue for news companies (and I use the term loosely).

With the uncertainty they have spread and the refusal to work on Obamacare problems they are on track of making it fail even without repealing.

The public exchanges may not have any affordable policies or even any policies at all available at some point.

The ACA is a lot more than just the public exchanges.

That's Congress not the Executive

They will lower taxes mainly for upper incomes and produce huge deficits. They will have made the US health system even worse. Another achievement will be winding back a lot of environmental rules.

So I think they are on track with their real goals. Helping the American worker was never a serious goal.

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