He followed the playbook that had marked his life in business before politics. He focused on branding — labeling the legislation the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” — then relentlessly pushed to strong-arm it through Congress, solely on the votes of Republicans.

Once the president realized how hard it was to legislate, he turned away from it and has never really come back.

The discredited document was used to open the original Trump–Russia probe and brief then-President-elect Donald Trump, despite top Obama-era intelligence officials knowing it was filled with unverified "internet rumor.

Republicans spent months selling the bill to themselves. Now they have to talk to a wider audience with many voters saying they don’t know what’s in it.

President Donald Trump signed his package of tax breaks and spending cuts into law Friday after his cajoling produced almost unanimous Republican support in Congress for the domestic priority that