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Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. Happy Monday! In today's edition, we explore President Donald Trump's homebody tendencies during his first three months in office. Plus, Sahil Kapur lays out the policy challenges confronting GOP lawmakers as they return to Washington and begin the process of writing their big bill for Trump's agenda.
Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday here. — Adam Wollner Trump has traveled little in his first 100 days, preferring to spend time at Mar-a-Lago But President Donald Trump, who initially established his political brand through major rallies with his supporters, has taken a different approach. Ahead of the 100-day mark of his administration, Trump spent parts of 40 days on his personal properties, Natasha Korecki, Megan Shannon and Elyse Perlmutter-Gumbiner report.
That includes 12 of the 14 weekends he's been in office so far. On nine of the weekends, he has overnighted at Mar-a-Lago, where he can often be found on his golf courses in West Palm Beach or Jupiter. So far, Trump has traveled around the country less frequently than he did during the same period of his first term in 2017.
Then-President Joe Biden also made more visits outside Washington during his first 100 days. "Trump rallies have been replaced with almost daily announcements of policy statements from the Oval. But afterward, he is not in the weeds on policy details — he is on the putting greens," said Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett, a former Trump administration official.
"He has taken a massive gamble on transforming the country around trade but with no clear vision or communication of what the end result looks like." Trump started off on a faster pace, surveying flood damage in North Carolina and fire damage in California before landing in Las..
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