Nevertheless, Mr. Trump trumpeted those achievements on Sunday. But after a photo finish, Democrats are not calling the 115th Congress “do-nothing.” Instead they are dwelling on what Republicans did. “If you ask the top 1 percent how Senate Republicans did this year, they’d give them an A,” Mr. Schumer said. “But if you ask middle-class Americans how the Republican Senate did this year, they’d give them a big fat red F.”Mr. McConnell has warned that 2018 will be difficult. Some Republicans expressed confidence that even Mr. Trump has learned some lessons from such experiences.

Source: New York Times December 24, 2017 21:15 UTC