Double challenge: Trump's credibility is at stake
Double challenge: Trump's credibility is at stake
cnn - this week Donald Trump is faced with two challenges - one in Germany and one abroad. These will put his self -made mythology as a master of negotiations and his ability to make real and permanent changes.
challenges in the congress
The President exposes considerable pressure to the fragile Republican majority member of the congress to overcome internal differences and the "large, beautiful law" to say goodbye , which contains its most important domestic political priorities. So far failed efforts to bring peace in Ukraine achieve during a calls on Monday with the Russian president Vladimir Putin a new turning point, although Putin Trump's Initiative rejected the administration despite the forgiving treatment.
a crucial law to change government policy
Trump's draft budget is his best chance to transform the country - at least in a conventional and constitutional way. Changes in the law are more permanent than its rapid executive orders. The President plans to reduce taxes, finance his mass deportation plans and the defense budget by many billions of dollars Increase .
However, drastic Crossings at Medicaid Alienation of moderate republicans. The horror of this argument could therefore show the break lines of the Trump coalition and require a stronger intervention by the president during the week.
Putin's true intentions recognize
The world could soon experience the extent of Trump's sincerity in relation to its Ukraine initiative. There is a critical phase for a Friedensplan in Ukraine before, but so far little promised has.
himself Trump considered whether Putin wants to hold him in a peace attempt, which has so far mainly exists out of pressure on Ukraine, the victim of the war, while the aggressor is rewarded. After Putin a had almost arranged in Turkey , the US President explained that it Will give progress until he personally sit down at a table with the Russian guide.
Trump's credibility on the test bench
The planned phone call on Monday will therefore be a serious examination of Trump's credibility and sincerity in the Ukraine negotiations and its willingness to also put the lowest pressure on Russia. Signs of frustration in the White House are becoming increasingly clear.
Vice President JD Vance, who criticized Zelensky in February in the Oval Office, hit the Ukrainian leader in Rome at the weekend, only days after he had warned that Russia "too much demands" . Trump's conviction that only he could influence Putin - a property he shares with several predecessors - could be put to the test if Moscow is not moving.
The internal arguments of the Republicans
Trump's large, beautiful law is intended to anchor noticeable changes in the direction of government policy. It includes at least $ 1.5 trillion in spending cuts in order to finance the tax relief of his first term and to expand the promise that he gave during the election campaign, including the exemption from income from drinking money and overtime remuneration and the increase in standard deductions. The law would initiate a shipbuilding program in the midst of an escalating rivalry struggle with China and a down payment for a space-based " Golden"> Dome ”defense system for rockets.
The challenges for the spokesman for the house
The effects of legislation put a strain on the short majority of the speaker of the house, Mike Johnson, and led to emotional disputes in the committee after months of hard negotiations. Johnson managed to find a compromise to appease hardliners and implemented the law after a tense weekend by the house's budget committee. But the law has to overcome further important hurdles this week before a coordination can take place throughout the house.
The internal dynamics of the Washington Republicans could be complex, but they fade compared to the challenge that Trump looks against Putin - who, unlike the Republicans, has no real incentive to leave the president well. It remains to be seen whether Trump can meet the expectations that he has set himself.