Mitch McConnell’s ‘Excessive Expectations’ Comment Draws Trump’s Ire
WASHINGTON — President Trump lashed out on Wednesday at the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, who suggested this week
that the president harbored “excessive expectations” about the pace of congressional progress.
“After 7 years of hearing Repeal & Replace, why not done?”
The executive scolding followed the president’s bitter disappointment with the Senate’s failure to dismantle the Affordable Care Act last month — and supplied perhaps the most potent evidence yet
that Mr. Trump, seething over the lack of major achievements in his first year, will not hesitate to train fire on allies.
“The leader has spoken repeatedly about the path forward regarding Obamacare repeal on the Senate floor, at media availabilities multiple times
and in Kentucky,” his spokeswoman, Antonia Ferrier, said in an email.
