Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday the Trump White House has set unrealistic time lines and expectations for getting legislation to the president's desk. | Getty White House social media director fires back at McConnell

With the agenda of President Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress stalled, the White House is pushing the blame on Capitol Hill.

“More excuses,” White House social media director Dan Scavino wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning on Twitter, responding to comments Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made in Kentucky earlier this week. “@SenateMajLdr must have needed another 4 years – in addition to the 7 years – to repeal and replace Obamacare…”


McConnell's failure to pass a “skinny” repeal of the Affordable Care Act through the Senate sank a seven-year GOP effort that had driven Republicans' campaigns and messaging strategy.

McConnell, speaking Monday in Florence, Kentucky, , said the Trump White House has set unrealistic time lines and expectations for getting legislation to the president’s desk.

“Part of the reason I think that the story line is that we haven’t done much is because, in part the president and others have set these early time lines about things need to be done by a certain point,” McConnell said.

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Trump, a former real estate mogul, did not have a realistic idea of how governing actually works in Washington, McConnell said.

“Our new president has of course not been in this line of work before, and I think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process,” McConnell said.

Congress returns to town in September and will move on tax reform, another legislative item that will be tricky to pass before the end of the year.