GOP/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Energized by special counsel Robert Mueller’s finding of “no collusion” with Russia, President Donald Trump is relitigating a host of contentious policy battles – from health care to immigration – that could dramatically shape his reelection effort. Trump faces a political dynamic on Capitol Hill that has not changed. Democrats, who control the House and have the power to block his initiatives, remain hostile to his agenda. But the president has ramped up his rhetoric on immigration, reopened fights over health care and storm-ravaged Puerto Rico and vowed to “fix” the crisis in Venezuela…Eyeing the growing field of Democratic candidates seeking to unseat him in 2020, Trump returned to battleground Michigan for a rally Thursday in which he reveled in the findings from the Mueller report summary and repeatedly slammed his critics…Trump shocked Republicans and Democrats this week by reopening a fight over Obamacare that many believed he already fought and lost.”
–John Fritze, “‘The party of health care’: How Donald Trump is reshaping his strategy post-Mueller,” USA Today, April 1, 2019 6:26 pm