Delusional Trump Cites Progress on Bill That Doesn’t Exist – Vanity Fair

Could be saying...literally anything.

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On Thursday, Donald Trump stood in the Rose Garden and announced, effectively, that he was granting U.S. companies permission to pollute to their hearts delight, by pulling out of the Paris climate accord. It was a move that was widely expected, mostly symbolic, and yet still shocking. So well forgive you if you missed another startling moment wherein the president of the United States invented legislation and then proceeded to invent the progress its making in Congress.

Our tax bill is moving along in Congress, and I believe its doing very well, Trump said during his speech announcing the Paris decision. I think a lot of people will be very pleasantly surprised. In fact, no such tax bill exists, at least not yet, but that didnt stop Trump from elaborating further. The Republicans are working very, very hard. Wed love to have support from the Democrats, but we may have to go it alone. But its going very well.

Perhaps the president can be forgiven for his evident confusion. Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn unveiled a CliffsNotes version of Trumps tax proposal, which was notable for being a single-page, double-spaced series of bullet points. Does the president think that document is a bill? Its unclear what would be worse: if he simply made up a fictional bill thats moving along in congress or if he thinks the one-page outline that was hastily thrown together in a matter of days is what passes for legislation.

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