He followed the playbook that had marked his life in business before politics. He focused on branding — labeling the legislation the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” — then relentlessly pushed to strong-arm it through Congress, solely on the votes of Republicans.

The discredited document was used to open the original Trump–Russia probe and brief then-President-elect Donald Trump, despite top Obama-era intelligence officials knowing it was filled with unverified "internet rumor.

Once the president realized how hard it was to legislate, he turned away from it and has never really come back.

Republicans spent months selling the bill to themselves. Now they have to talk to a wider audience with many voters saying they don’t know what’s in it.

Obama-era officials acknowledged that they had no “empirical evidence" of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election, but continued to push the collusion "narrative."

In an effort to more painlessly pass Trump’s wildly unpopular tax and spending bill, Republicans are pushing for a creative accounting method that uses a “current policy” baseline, which would prevent a filibuster and allow the bill to pass with 51 votes instead of 60.

President Donald Trump signed his package of tax breaks and spending cuts into law Friday after his cajoling produced almost unanimous Republican support in Congress for the domestic priority that

Obama-era officials acknowledged that they had no “empirical evidence" of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election, but continued to push the collusion "narrative."