In a series of early morning messages, the president criticized the Senate’s filibuster rules, saying they were hampering his agenda. It was not clear why he was focused on the filibuster rule, a parliamentary delay tactic that requires 60 votes to overcome. A proposal this week to repeal portions of the health care law, as long demanded by Mr. Trump, required a simple 51-vote majority to pass and still failed. Nonetheless, Mr. Trump plowed on in the flurry of Twitter posts that started shortly after 7 a.m., saying “many great Republican bills will never pass,” including health care, under the filibuster rule. Antonia Ferrier, a spokeswoman for Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, declined to comment on Mr. Trump’s posts.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2017 14:23 UTC