President Donald Trump’s time in office has been a “complete disaster” aside from foreign affairs, fellow Republican and former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said at an energy conference.
The former Ohio congressman said he has been friends with Trump for 15 years but never thought he would occupy the White House.
And while he praised Trump’s aggressive steps to challenge the
Islamic State militant group and other moves in international affairs,
he was highly critical of the president’s other early efforts.
“Everything else he’s done has been a complete disaster,” Boehner said at the energy conference in Houston on Wednesday, according to the energy publication Rigzone. “He’s still learning how to be president.”
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A spokesman for Boehner confirmed the comments.
Boehner, who resigned from Congress in 2015, was also highly
critical of efforts by the administration and his former Republican
colleagues in Congress to advance sweeping healthcare and tax reform
plans.
He said Republicans should never have tried to “repeal and replace”
the Affordable Care Act, even after the House narrowly passed an
overhaul measure. The Senate is considering its own version of the
package.
And he dismissed tax reform efforts, which form a cornerstone of the Republican policy agenda, as “just a bunch of happy talk.”
While Boehner’s successor, Speaker Paul Ryan, tries to include a
border adjustment tax, a tax on imports, as a key piece of any tax code
overhaul, Boehner declared it “deader than a doornail” amid opposition from fellow Republicans and the White House.
Boehner also supported efforts to “get to the bottom” of
any potential interactions between Trump associates and the Russian
government. However, he described any calls to impeach Trump as the
purview of “the crazy left-wing Democratic colleagues of mine.”
Democratic Representative Al Green has formally introduced articles
of impeachment for Trump, but such an effort has not been embraced by
most Democratic lawmakers as the investigation continues.
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