White House aide blasts McConnell over Trump comments - New York Post

Republican finger-pointing over the party’s failure to keep its campaign promises continued apace on Wednesday, with a White House aide firing back at the Senate majority leader’s criticism of Team Trump.

“More excuses,” White House social media director Dan Scavino tweeted Wednesday morning in response to flak from Sen. Mitch McConnell that the administration set “unrealistic timelines” for the Senate to accomplish what it told voters it would do.

“@SenateMajLdr must have needed another 4 years – in addition to the 7 years – to repeal and replace Obamacare…” he added, referring to pledges by the GOP — and Trump — to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, an effort that crashed and burned in the Senate.

McConnell on Monday blamed the Trump administration for the embarrassing failure of the repeal-and-replace effort.

“Part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point,” McConnell said about the president, who had vowed to kill the ACA on “day one.”

Trump, a reality TV star and real estate big with no political experience outside of running a successful campaign, just doesn’t get how Congress works, McConnell complained.

“Our new president has of course not been in this line of work before, and I think that excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process,” he said in a talk in his home state of Kentucky.

The dust-up between Scavino and the Senate leader came two days after House Republicans launched a new website blaming the media for their lack of accomplishments — even though the GOP controls the House, Senate and Oval Office.

The website, Did You Know, plaintively asserts that the press focuses too much on scandals such as the feds’ probe of Russian election meddling and possible ties to the Trump campaign, and not enough on what it calls the party’s accomplishments.

“House Republicans aren’t distracted by the newest countdown clock on cable news or partisan sniping in Washington, DC,” the website reads. “You don’t care about those things. You care about finding a good job, taking care of your family, and achieving the American Dream, and so do we.”

Congress is on its traditional month-long August vacation but has a daunting agenda when they straggle back to the Capitol in September, including tax reform, an infrastructure plan and dealing with the debt ceiling.

And the president has alternately commanded lawmakers to take up repeal and replace again, or to do nothing and let ObamaCare die, something most experts don’t expect to happen.

The fate of the president’s border wall with Mexico is also in doubt, and special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is heating up, with a grand jury impaneled and the revelation that the FBI had raided the home of the president’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.

Trump on Tuesday gave himself a pat on the back for what he said he had accomplished.

“After 200 days, rarely has any Administration achieved what we have achieved..not even close! Don’t believe the Fake News Suppression Polls!” he wrote on Twitter.

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