It looks like Trump's major goal is fighting the media. Tax reform would be more meaningful. Trump is repeating his mistake from a few weeks ago when his distraction with other issues is why the Senate failed to repeal Obamacare.

White House officials, including then-press secretary Sean Spicer, said in July that Trump would be hitting the road to lay the groundwork for tax reform before administration and congressional negotiators wrapped up their high-level work in September.

But with less than two weeks to go before Congress returns, and Republican leaders hoping to launch a major push to get tax legislation to the president’s desk by the end of the year, Trump has barely mentioned the subject.

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