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| |  |  |  |  | Analysis - ABC's Rick Klein |  |  | "This is what winning looks like," President Trump declared in the Rose Garden, in an odd, meandering event that was supposed to honor the Air Force Academy football team. But the display from the White House in the wake of the spending deal has been about what happens not when the president wins, which is a debatable question in an agreement where he got few of his biggest priorities funded. Rather, this is what it looks like when the president loses; what he lost was a news cycle. Trump's bizarre call for a government shutdown and a rewrite of Senate rules marks just the latest wild direction the president has taken his rhetoric and his pledges as he kicks off his second 100 days. And the stark admission from the president's budget chief is that it came about because the Democrats "went out to try to spike the football and make him look bad." Capitol Hill was perplexed by the outburst. There's never good timing for that but this is a week when the president needs members of Congress to trust his word, with support for his health care push slipping, for the third time and counting. This is one of those weeks – and there have been many in the Trump presidency – where the search for a strategy results in the conclusion that the strategy is most likely chaos. And to repeat, the president said he's winning. |  |  |  |  |  | Trump makes another final push for Obamacare repeal |  | President Trump is getting personally involved, again, in an effort to get the Republican Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill passed in the House, ABC's JONATHAN KARL reports. According to a senior White House official involved in the effort, the president spoke to 15 Republican House members yesterday who have either said they are opposed to the bill or are still undecided. The official tells ABC News that the president will meet with "a handful" of skeptical House Republicans at the White House later this morning. The White House and Congressional Republicans are discussing a possible amendment to bill to address concerns of those now opposed. The White House is still hopeful the bill will pass this week, although the senior official acknowledged that it is incredibly close and that if it passes, it will be by a "razor-thin" margin. |  |  |  |  |  |  | This email was sent to bamsdum.xiomi@blogger.com
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