(Bloomberg) President Donald Trump is now more likely than everto end his first year in office without a single major legislativeaccomplishment.

His Obamacare repeal collapsed Tuesday. Hewon’t even release the broad outlines of his tax overhaul planuntil September. The last time Washington did a major tax bill, in1986, it took more than a year. A $1 trillion infrastructure planis little more than a talking point. Congress ignored his budgetproposal. Republicans are as divided on all of these issues as theyare on health care. Lawmakers haven’t even given him money to buildhis border wall.

And between now and the end of the year, Congress still has toapprove more than $1 trillion in federal spending, pass a veteranshealth-care bill and navigate a debt-ceiling fight to avoid apotential default, all in the space of about a dozen working weeks.It doesn’t leave much time for legislating, even for a Republicanpresident who came into office with a package of promises and aRepublican Senate and a Republican House to boot.

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