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'The president is a distraction': Republican lawmakers start to turn on Trump as his agenda flounders

One senator said Trump "scares no one" in the Senate, a congressman called the president a "distraction."

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When Donald Trump was elected president and Republicans retained control of both chambers of Congress, there was a sense that the Republican agenda — lowering taxes, repealing Obamacare, decreasing regulation — would be unleashed.

Roughly six months into the Trump presidency, however, little movement on that agenda has started to lead to boiling frustration within the party.

The repeal of Obamacare, a central tenant of the last seven years of GOP policy, has become bogged down in the Senate. The replacement bill is the least popular piece of legislation in decades.

Tax reform has yet to get off the ground. Major Obama-era regulations like the Dodd-Frank Act are still in place.

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Throw all that on top of that the swirling, seemingly constant revelations around the Russia investigation, and some Republican lawmakers are starting to shift their moods on Trump.

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