The Trump Scorecard – One Year Later

In our inaugural Wealth Management newsletter in February, 2017, we analyzed the President's campaign platform and made predictions about the President's legislative agenda. We checked our predictions in May and again in 2017. So now, one year later, how did the President do and how did we do?

1. Health care. Health care might have been a recovered fumble. The attempt to outright repeal the ACA failed but in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December, the individual mandate was repealed. The President has declared recently that he intends to pursue again the outright repeal of Obama care. In addition to the failure of the attempt to repeal the ACA, several other legislative priorities were sidelined, backtracked and became more difficult. We suggested the tax cuts legislation might have been a better first priority than repeal of the ACA - the money vs. lives argument - and the President's tax cuts legislation likely took longer and was less comprehensive (though a win for