Knowing where Donald Trump stands on an issue is notoriously difficult. He's been on multiple sides of most of the major issues of his lifetime. There are threads of consistency—such as on trade and race—that stretch back decades, and he is reliably opposed to anything Barack Obama supported. But on major domestic policy issues, Trump is often mercurial. Generally, the more complicated the issue, the more haphazard his views are on it. Consider his public utterances on a bipartisan health-care deal that was announced on Tuesday by two senators, Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee, and Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington.
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