Elaine Kamarck, senior fellow in Governance Studies, reflects on how the president's temperament influenced the start of his administration. 

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Matthew Fiedler, fellow with the Center for Health Policy, breaks down the new amendment to the AHCA eliminating the community rating requirement and the position this places states in reforming health care. 

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Bill Galston, Ezra K. Zilkha Chair and senior fellow in Governance Studies, evaluates Trump's recent tax proposal and highlights the potential impact on taxpayers, the federal government, and economic growth. 

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Sarah Binder, senior fellow in Governance Studies, reviews Trump's first 100 days in office and considers why the administration has achieved so little of its legislative agenda. 

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Alan Berube, senior fellow and deputy director at the Metropolitan Policy Program, breaks down why the federal court ruling temporarily blocked Trump's executive order on sanctuary cities.

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Molly Reynolds, fellow in Governance Studies, explains why the United States is facing a partial government shutdown and what lessons the White House should learn about this experience. 

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Thomas Wright, director of the Project on International Order and Strategy and a fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe, elaborates on Trump's sudden reversal of opinion on NATO and what it means for relations with both Europe and Russia in the coming months.

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William Galston, the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies, addresses the OMB's recent directive to federal agencies, which gave more information on President Trump's executive order to cut personnel, and how these efforts to "drain the swamp" will likely prove counterproductive to the work of the administration.

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Kemal Kirişci, the TÜSİAD senior fellow and director of the Center on the United States and Europe's Turkey Project, breaks down Turkey's upcoming referendum, which would transfer significant power to President Erdoğan, and explains how movement away from democratic ideals could alter the rule-based world order led by the United States. 

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Jonathan Sallet, visiting fellow in Governance Studies, argues why federal support for science and technology is important to democratic values following Trump's proposed budget cuts. 

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