It’s kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t scenario.
I think 3 phases might have actually worked with the energy and pressure of Donald Trump behind it. However, people are still thinking about the notorious fickleness of Congress and are going “sure, sure, sure” in irony.
Something is going to have to populate all those phases, at the least, even if trimming bills need to be passed later to adjust things.
Phase 1 was such a weak step that I’m convinced Trump had no interest in seeing it succeed. Everything he does is bold and ambitious, and Ryan’s bill looked like it was drafted by a small-town Rotary club.