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Cantor holds a B. Kennedy School of Government. He served on the U. What can you tell us about the philosophy of leadership toward this new phenomenon named Donald Trump coming to town and going to be president of the United States?
One, yes, I would agree that there was a sense among my former colleagues on the Hill that they would finally have the opportunity to see things pass that the party had wanted to see passed for, if not decades, certainly many, many years, and from fiscal policy to social policy, health care, energy, the rest. So there was obviously a lot of work that had been done on a number of measures.
So yes, the Hill felt that it could lead. It was unanimity in the White House that they wanted a tax bill done; they coalesced around what they wanted done, and then that went and joined up with the many years of effort on Capitol Hill to get something passed. How would that have been viewed from the Hill? I think Donald Trump was always viewed, and has continue to be viewed, as somebody from the outside.
And that is by his choice; that is how he got elected. So I think the juxtaposition of somebody like Reince Priebus with Steve Bannon reinforces that notion that there is going to be some tension naturally by an outsider coming into the White House by trying to fit into the established way.
And if you talk to some folks who may have had business interactions with Donald Trump in the past, you hear from them that this is all about the methodology. It is continuing to stir it up, to have chaos, to not have anyone feel necessarily confident in where things are heading.
But Priebus would have been seen as soothing? I mean, how is Priebus seen? Well, no, just specifically him. I mean, I love Reince. He ran the party. He never served on Capitol Hill. And I think initially, the White House had really spurned a lot of the folks who had had that kind of experience in prior administrations in the White House. What was your attitude when you heard that was the direction? Because you had stated that this was an impossible task in some ways that they were taking on.
What was your view when you heard? And I always say whether it was taxes or infrastructure, even, would have been something that they could have gained some bipartisan support, and hopefully, I would have thought that they would have seen, hey, there could have been a different route for this White House to go. Now, I look back at the Obama administration and see their choice of the way they went and they chose a similar path. It was all partisan all the time.
When Obama did that, he had a unified Democratic Party. It seems that the Republicans—and you know this from your past there—was more divided. How big a problem was that? Should Ryan have understood that? And what role did the Freedom Caucus take?
See, I disagree with you, because I think that Donald Trump is a uniter of the party right now. And you can look at the Freedom Caucus, and you can look at all the objections that they may or may not raise along the way. They were certainly much more unified in their election in the primary, although they, remember, had a very, very contentious primary between Hillary and Obama.
So they were divided, too. And you saw the Trump White House do that on tax reform. And the health care went through all sorts of ups and downs. But it had nothing to do with that. There was just never any resolution between—. I take your point. But talk a little bit about—I mean, because a lot of people have talked about those moments step by step.
You guys have been promising it for seven years. But if you can help me tell the story of what happened during the first time of the roles that everybody played, the frustration of Ryan, the pressure of a novice White House that was pushing on them at a time to get the damn thing done.
Some people worried about the cost and the government subsidies and the spending under the health care bill. There were some other people who worried about the taxes. I mean, there was never a coalescence around the answer. And I can tell you just in the years that I was there and working with the physician caucuses and the other people, there was not resolution. It was all over the map.
But at the end of the day, do you have a united Republican control of Washington? Well, I mean, I think in the end the president showed that he was willing to go in and call out his own party for not getting something done, which is how the thing got passed in the House.
The Rose Garden celebration after the House win: What were your thoughts? Yeah, I mean, it was way premature. I mean, come on, but again, I think very consistent with what Donald Trump has been about prior to becoming president, and you see it now as president. He is really a masterful player when it comes to the press. So I do think it was part of that; it was part of the show. Some people complain that it ended up in a room with a bunch of white guys who were the ones sort of figuring out what it would be.
Take me to the process that happened in the Senate. What was the process when it went to the Senate? Stay away.
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