Donald Trump, increasingly isolated in the White House, faces a daunting task to get his presidency back on track when Congress returns on Tuesday from a summer ending all too soon. No man is an island, but the US president has become a uniquely toxic figure. “For the Congressional Republican leadership, Trump is their North Korea.”Pressing fiscal deadlinesThe stakes are high in what Bannon, former White House chief strategist, reportedly referred to as “meat-grinder” month. Even as the White House and congressional leaders agree the pressing fiscal deadlines must be met, differences over political priorities have raised the spectre of a showdown ahead. Trump subsequently blamed Republicans, taking unusually public aim at McConnell, for the failure to dismantle Barack Obama’s healthcare law.

Source: The Guardian September 02, 2017 06:00 UTC