Trump coverage drowns out Republicans' agenda

Republicans on Capitol Hill spent last week fending off mobs of reporters who rarely asked a question about the GOP agenda.

Instead they wanted to know how Republicans feel about the escalating problems bubbling up from the Trump administration.

Drowned out were the talks about GOP's efforts to reform the tax code and repeal Obamacare, which led some to speculate that the Republican agenda has essentially been sidelined, perhaps permanently.

That's not true, say GOP lawmakers, who blame the Capitol Hill media for downplaying coverage of their agenda in favor of round-the-clock reporting of Trump's troubles.

"Today, I have dealt with healthcare, we've started to wade into actual tax reform," Sen Jim Risch, R-Idaho, told the Washington Examiner. "We can't make headlines, though. How can you make headlines when there is already a headline: Trump did … fill in the blank."