Trump, Congress, and Health Care: All Politics Is National
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Matthew J. Dickinson
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Kate Reinmuth
Abstract
John McCain’s dramatic early-morning “no” vote may have been the immediate cause of the Republican failure to repeal and replace Obamacare. However, Republicans undertook this endeavor from a weak political vantage point. The 2016 elections gave Republicans very little margin for error in Congress – a margin threatened by Trump’s inexperience and lack of political capital. Longer-term trends, including the polarization of the two congressional parties against the backdrop of increasingly nationalized elections, exacerbated this situation by leaving Trump and Republicans little choice but to legislate through their own party caucus – or to not legislate at all.
Acknowledgments
We thank Maggie Joseph for her invaluable research assistance.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Who are President Trump’s Allies in the House of Representatives?
- Trump, Congress, and Health Care: All Politics Is National
- No Deal: Donald Trump’s Leadership of Congress
- Trump and the Republican Congress: The Challenges of Governing
- President Trump and Congressional Republicans: Uncertain Teamwork in the 115th Congress
- Donald Trump, the Public, and Congress: The First 7 Months
- The Shadow of Executive Privilege
- The Struggle to Govern in the Trump White House: Competing Power Centers, Personalities, and World Visions The First 7 Months
- ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ Donald Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Hazards of Executive-Centered Partisanship
- Book reviews
- Hiding Politics in Plain Sight
- Progressive Federalism
- Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency
