The two sides celebrated bipartisan bonhomie over a $2 trillion infrastructure plan as constitutional battles were set aside for a day.
By Seung Min Kim Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow April 30 at 6:10 PM Even if only for 90 minutes, Washington had declared a truce.
“It couldn’t have gone any better,” said Rep. Richard E. Neal , the same person who is embroiled in an acrimonious fight with the administration over obtaining six years of the president’s tax returns. “That was a Gary bill,” Trump said, according to a Democratic official who described the conversation on the condition of anonymity, referring to former National Economic Council director Gary Cohn. “That bill was so stupid.”
White House press officials did not respond to a request for confirmation of Trump’s private remarks.Without any prompting from Democrats, Trump asked them about the status of a largely dormant health-care package written by Sens. Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray to bolster the Affordable Care Act by funding subsidies to help stabilize President Barack Obama’s health-care law.
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