Trump's Russia scandal threatens GOP agenda

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When it comes to Donald Trump and Russia, congressional Republicans just can’t win.

The GOP needs the president to sign off on their agenda, so Republicans on Capitol Hill are still brushing off calls for an independent investigation into communications between Trump’s team and the Russian government, despite the drip-drip of new revelations.

But Republicans readily acknowledge that the investigation chatter is quickly engulfing any legislative momentum they gained after their resounding victories last November.

“Our agenda is full,” Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) said in an interview. “So anything that’s added as a result of the storyline that’s evolving with Russia intrudes on the ability to pursue the agenda that we set out for us: regulations, Obamacare and the tax code.”

As Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) put it, “We’re talking about this and not something else.”

“We need to figure out a way to get it behind us,” Corker said Wednesday. “We’ve got important things to do for our country right now and they’re expecting us as a country — not as Republicans, not as Democrats, as a country — to move ahead and solve much of what is ailing us and build on the things that we’ve got good foundations for. But this is disruptive.”

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Trump's Russia scandal threatens GOP agenda