Trump no longer 'behaving like someone who cares': Haberman
Key takeaways
- Haberman spoke on CNN about the president cancelling plans to sign a bipartisan housing bill until his voter ID bill, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, is passed.
- This bill was supposed to deal with that, and the president just wasn t interested, she told Collins.
- Haberman and her colleague Jonathan Swan spoke with Collins about their new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.
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Haberman spoke on CNN about the president cancelling plans to sign a bipartisan housing bill until his voter ID bill, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, is passed. She emphasized to CNN s Kaitlan Collins that the cost of living is a crucial issue among a large swath of Americans and could factor into whether Republicans maintain control of Congress.
This bill was supposed to deal with that, and the president just wasn t interested, she told Collins. So does the president care? He s not behaving like somebody who cares. Maybe he will start to at some point, but he is not right now and I m not sure whether he particularly believes he will suffer consequences.
Haberman and her colleague Jonathan Swan spoke with Collins about their new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. Collins pointed out one piece of news Haberman and Swan report in the book, which is that the president looks at far fewer polls than he did during his first term and operates more on pure gut instinct.