Although it’s a four-year term, the president of the United States has only about one year to get anything done.

In the second year, all members of the House and a third of the Senate are up for re-election and some might face contested primaries. In the president’s party, courage will be in short supply.

But when a president is freshly elected, especially if the voters delivered a mandate, it’s more difficult for members of the president’s party to tell him to get lost. It’s extra difficult if the president has recently survived being shot.

So President Trump is at his maximum power right now, but Republicans have only a razor-thin majority in the House and Senate, barely any votes to spare. Here’s the challenge: Can Trump deliver on the key campaign promises that got him elected, whil

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