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AS DONALD TRUMP’S WHITE HOUSE continued in hyperdrive to promote his first 100 days as a breakout realityshow hit, congressional aides a few blocks east were negotiating a deal to avert a disastrous government shutdown over the current funding agreement. The more than $1 trillion, almost 1,700-page bill, which keeps the lights on through September, served as a reality check for the President: the 535 voting members of Congress cannot be ignored. “I think he needs to understand our democratic system and our separation of branches,” says Democratic Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland. “This is not running a business. This is running a country.”
No lesson has been so stinging for the neophyte President. His campaign promises face delay at the hands of an unexpected impediment: Republicans in the House and Senate, where party leaders have for years honed worldclass obstructionist skills. Many have criticized Trump’s dreams of a $1 trillion infrastructure plan, a border tax that would cost middleclass families dearly and especially a prompt repeal of Obamacare that, for now, seems back on the shelf. Trump found himself repeatedly bedeviled and outgunned. “It’s not fair,” Trump told Fox News in an interview on the eve of his 100-day mark. “It forces you to make bad decisions. I mean, you’re really forced into doing things that you would normally not do except for these archaic rules.” Trump used the word archaic three more times in 20 minutes. Around the White House, Trump huffed that he hasn’t yet been able to translate his real estate skills into legislative wins. He fumed that cable news cast him as a loser in the budget, even as his aides were promoting it. Trump took to Twitter, renewing threats of a “good shutdown” in September and changing Senate rules to make it easier to score wins. On the rule change, the top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, responded, “That will not happen.”
None of the drama reflected the contents of a budget that allows the government to avoid an embarrassing shutdown. Lawmakers boost spending to the Pentagon by $15 billion (well short of the $54 billion Trump wanted) and to the National Institutes of Health by $2 billion (Trump sought to gut the popular medical research labs). Republicans can cite both as reasons to cheer. “I think it’s important that we govern and not just shut down the government,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas. “I think we need to move on.”