And what his actions tell us about what kind of president he is.
They say the party can’t win in the future without wooing back the working-class white vote.
Women, in a minority at the gun owners convention, stood strongly behind the president despite his dropping approval ratings among the demographic overall.
Electoral considerations drive the president as much as anything else
His executive order on “Improving Accountability and Whistleblower Protections” would create an office in the Department of Veterans Affairs to identify barriers to bouncing bad workers from an agency whose ethical reputation was shredded during a scandal over the cover-up of long patient wait times.
Also: The latest on Michael Flynn, shutdown watch, tax breaks and offshore drilling.
She told a progressive radio host that it was more evidence of money's malign political influence.
"What we're looking for is: Are civil servants being bullied or intimidated?" said Ben Berwick, a former Justice Department lawyer.
The bill will fail — and that's what Democrats want. They are hoping to tie vulnerable GOP incumbents to Trump's decision to withhold information on his taxes and White House visitors.
Tax reform was the centerpiece of his busy 97th day in office,
Backing away from a threat to end subsidy payments under the Affordable Care Act, along with the withdrawal of a request for funding a border wall, eases chances that the government will shut down this weekend.
