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The stunning collapse of the Republican health-care bill now imperils the rest of President Donald Trump's ambitious congressional agenda, with few prospects for quick victory on tax reform, construction projects or a host of other issues in the months ahead despite complete GOP control of government.

While Republicans broadly share the goal of Trump's promised "big tax cuts," the president will have to bridge many of the same divides within his own party that sank the attempted overhaul of the Affordable Care Act. And without savings anticipated from the health-care bill, paying for the "massive" cuts Trump has promised for corporations and middle-class families becomes considerably more complicated.

Meanwhile, other marquee agenda items, including a $1 trillion investment in roads and other infrastructure and proposed crackdowns on both legal and illegal immigration, will require the support of Democrats, many of whom have been alienated by the highly partisan start to Trump's tenure.

The lone exception for near-term victory could come with the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch but even that faces the prospect of a threatened filibuster by Democrats.

Trump and Republican leaders continued Saturday in their attempts to put a brave face on the health-care debacle. "Obamacare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great health-care plan for THE PEOPLE," Trump wrote in a morning tweet. "Do not worry!"

But others in the party acknowledged the political damage sustained by pulling the House bill, particularly for a president who had touted his own deal-making prowess.

"It's a momentum issue," said Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo. "The fact is that, you know, you came out of the gate and you stumbled."

Doug Heye, a GOP consultant and former congressional staffer, said Republicans, having achieved control of both chambers of Congress and the White House, were left with a lot to prove.

"It sends a troubling sign to a lot of folks about the broader issue of whether Republicans will be able to govern," he said.

Trump has said he would have preferred to start his term by cutting "the hell out of taxes." Even before the health-care bill was pulled Friday, the president was already starting to turn the page.

Determined to highlight other priorities, Trump staged two announcements in the White House meant to underscore his commitment to creating jobs: granting a construction permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and appearing with executives of a telecom giant as they pledged to hire thousands of new employees, although the company's plans had already been announced in October.

Separately, Trump's treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, said at an event Friday that he will push Congress to enact comprehensive tax reform by its August recess, though he acknowledged the timetable might slip.

The White House signaled Saturday it was eager to move on. Trump's weekly address made no mention of the health-care fight, instead focusing on his signing of legislation authorizing funding for NASA and his commitment to space exploration.

A senior White House official said it was unlikely that Trump would ramp up a major sales effort on tax reform immediately, given his team had been planning on using the coming days to push for Senate action on the health-care bill.

Trump's top advisers had envisioned a three-step legislative agenda this year, starting with scaling back the health-care law scaling back former President Barack Obama's signature domestic initiative. After that was complete, they wanted to move to a comprehensive overhaul of the tax code, followed by the creation of a $1 trillion infrastructure package.

The implosion of the health-care effort complicates the tax overhaul both logistically and politically.

Reworking the health-care law as the House envisioned would have also cut roughly $1 trillion in revenues.

That would make it simpler for Republicans to pass a future overhaul of the tax code because they wouldn't have to find additional revenue to offset new tax cuts.

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist said the bloc of hard-line Republicans who helped stymie the health care overhaul were guilty of "ripping the lungs out of tax reform."

If they don't revisit the health-care bill immediately, Norquist said, they will soon realize that "They didn't shoot and wound health-care reform; they shot and killed permanent tax reform."

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., acknowledged Friday that the health-care defeat "does make tax reform more difficult, but it does not make it impossible. We are going to proceed with tax reform," Ryan said.