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What Trump Can Push Through Congress

Even though Republicans hold majorities in both chambers of Congress, Trump’s path to getting what he wants is strewn with hazards.
President Trump has spent his first month issuing executive orders. Now comes the hard part: working with Congress.
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In 1987, Donald Trump helped create his image as a master negotiator with his best-selling book The Art of the Deal. Never mind that his ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, says he wrote virtually all of it. Either way, the book includes an important lesson: Not every deal goes well. “I never get too attached to one deal or one approach,” Trump (and Schwartz) writes. “For starters, I keep a lot of balls in the air, because most deals fall out, no matter how promising they seem at first.”

Trump will soon be juggling as fast as he can. He and his White House team will be working on multiple deals,

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