The president attended the Senate Republican caucus lunch for the first time since his inauguration, to press for a unified front for passing a package of tax cuts before year’s end. “Bob Corker, who helped President O give us the bad Iran Deal & couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Tennessee, is now fighting Tax Cuts,” Trump tweeted. “Same untruths from an utterly untruthful president,” shot back Corker, who opposed the Iran nuclear deal because he believed it was too weak. Trump’s feud with Corker has further exposed the president’s tensions with some Republicans in Congress, where a major legislative victory this year has proved elusive. “If he’s not sufficiently Republican, I don’t know what the modern Republican Party is.” AFPAFP/CC

Source: Manila Times October 25, 2017 03:11 UTC