Posted on 11/18/2016 2:09:08 PM PST by COUNTrecount
A surprisingly optimistic President Obama predicted that Republicans will undo just 15 to 20 percent of his policies when Donald Trump takes office in January — despite the president-elect’s vow to overturn all of his executive orders.
“Maybe 15 percent of that gets rolled back, 20 percent, but there’s still a lot of stuff that sticks,” Obama told the New Yorker.
He conceded that ObamaCare could take a hit.
“That has been a unifying bogeyman for Republicans over the course of the last six years,” the president said.
“In the minds of a lot of the Republican base, it is an example of a big government program designed to take something from them and give it to someone else who is unworthy.”
But, he added, if Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress only “modify but still maintain a commitment to provide health insurance for the people who received it, then a whole bunch of stuff hasn’t gone out the window.”
Obama also said he believed the Iran nuke deal — another frequent Trump target — would survive.
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Depends on what the meaning of “some” is.
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