Matt Dowd: ‘I Doubt’ Republicans Will Be Able To Do Much with Slim Majority, Trump Will Have to Resort to Executive Orders

‘They’re going to figure out pretty early on that passing some fundamental real legislative reform is all but impossible in this’

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DOWD: "Big question. I doubt they’re going to be able to pass any real legislative fundamental change reform packages in the manner they want. They could pass some compromise strategies with Democrats, but they have a three-vote margin in the house, and you know, two or three-vote margin in the Senate, and you have people like Susan Collins and the senator from Alaska who are going to basically stop anything bad from happening. So my guess is they’re going to figure out pretty early on that passing some fundamental real legislative reform is all but impossible in this. And I think Donald Trump is going to, you know, resort to executive orders or on the international scale, doing things with or without NATO, doing things with Russia, all of those things he can do sort of on his own as president of the--"

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