President Donald Trump’s lightning strike first day in office ran into the more sluggish reality of Congress on Tuesday.
The president’s first formal meeting with top congressional Republicans produced little clarity as the clock ticks on government funding deadlines and the often fleeting momentum of a new leader’s first months in office.
Republicans are still split on how to pass their shared goals of extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and enacting tough border policies, showing that making permanent policy will be far more challenging and delicate than the executive actions the president barreled through Monday. One thing was clear: Trump ...