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struggle4progress

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Tue Feb 21, 2017, 09:03 PM Feb 2017

Hows the Agenda Going?

FEB 21 2017, 11:13 AM ET
by BENJY SARLIN

... the president was in the midst of a personnel crisis after firing national security adviser Michael Flynn. Trump's first choice to replace him, retired Navy Vice Adm. Robert Harward, turned him down. On Monday, however, he named Army Lt. General H.R. McMaster to the post, a widely respected figure in military circles.

The White House has also been bogged down in side battles over such issues as the size of the crowd at his inauguration to voter fraud conspiracies, sapping attention and draining aides ...

One of Trump's signature policy initiatives, blocking travel and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, has been held up by the courts and widely panned for its faulty deployment. And there are ongoing issues surrounding his potential conflicts of interest and recent reports linking campaign advisers to Russia ...

"There has never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time," Trump said ...


http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/it-s-been-one-month-how-s-trump-agenda-going-n723446

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