After a week of confirmation hearings destroys Trump's agenda, what's left?
Donald Trump thinks his cabinet nominees are doing "a great job," and they are—of obliterating his "outsider" agenda.
Really, when you stack up all the ways that his nominees and congressional Republicans have contradicted his biggest campaign pledges this week, Trump’s agenda has almost been leveled to the ground.
Immigration
Take Trump's precious border wall and all those anti-immigrant promises he made. Not only did his Homeland Security pick Gen. John Kelly throughly discount the wall by charging that it won’t “do the job," it's unclear how Trump will pay for it and whether congressional leaders even back his wholly anti-immigrant agenda.
House Speaker Paul Ryan completely rejected Trump's "deportation force," and while Trump is desperately claiming Mexico will pay for his “great wall,” it won't.
So Trump’s mutli-billion dollar wall hinges on taxpayer funding (a broken campaign promise) and Congress agreeing to fund it with taxpayer dollars, which it might not.
Foreign Policy
Trump's foreign policy pledges were notoriously pugnacious and pro-Russian in all the wrong ways. Now there's little evidence that anyone on Capitol Hill or among his appointees agree with much of it, if anything.
