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[Trump said it again last month -we need infrastructure - then McConnell publicly nixed it.]

Trump pays lip service to a lot of things. If he really wished it to happen, he could have threatened to actively campaign against McConnell in the Senate primary to ensure that he went down to defeat, thereby ensuring that all the other GOP senators got the message. Trump’s influence is such that while he can’t ensure a GOP candidate’s victory in the general, he can defeat that candidate in the primaries. Trump-endorsed GOP candidates have generally won primaries - when he campaigned on their behalf.

The fact is - Trump wanted the tax cuts and made sure they happened, but did nothing on DACA and the wall until the reality of the 2020 campaign and the inevitable are-GOP-voters-better-off-than-they-were-4-years-ago question began staring him in the face. Unfortunately, by that point, the GOP House majority was a fond memory. He thought his voters would stand by him through thick and thin. He was wrong. The SALT tax hikes in the blue states were all it took to undo the 2016 GOP House majority - blue state RINO’s were defeated in droves. He insisted on those tax cuts, and all it got him was a Democratic House majority-driven impeachment drive.