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Congress passed three significant bills before the Memorial Day recess that Mr. Trump has signed or will sign into law in coming weeks, including a partial rollback of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial industry regulations, a move that supporters — including many Democrats — say will spur lending by small banks in small towns nationwide.

As he signed the regulation-cutting measure late last week, the president said lawmakers are bucking the tradition of legislative loafing in a midterm election year.

“For a Congress that they say, you know, won’t be doing much because we have an election coming up, I think we’re doing an awful lot,” Mr. Trump said. “I think we’re doing more than any Congress in a long time.”…

The numbers back up the president. Mr. Trump has signed 57 laws so far this year, compared with 34 by President Obama at the same point in the midterm year of 2014, when Mr. Obama was contending with a House Republican majority. In April of that year, Mr. Obama complained it was “the least productive Congress in modern history.”

In the midterm year of 2010, when Mr. Obama was working with Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, he had signed 46 bills into law by Memorial Day….

“The Dodd-Frank reform is really important for the banking community, particularly small banks, but it’s not the kind of thing that normally penetrates the public consciousness,” said GOP pollster Whit Ayres, founder of North Star Opinion Research.

Success after success

He said voters tend to notice “major bills that affect many people in the country, like the tax cut.”

Still, the GOP has been performing much better in generic congressional polling in recent weeks, closing a double-digit gap with Democrats to move essentially into a tie. Mr. Ayres said that’s largely due to a rise of Mr. Trump’s job-approval rating from 37 percent in an average of all public polls around the time of the tax cuts, to about 44 percent today in the average of all polls….

In addition to legislative wins, Republicans are pointing to other actions likely to appeal to their base:

⦁ A record-breaking string of confirmations of conservative judges to federal appeals courts.

⦁ Executive action by Mr. Trump to reverse decades of federal funding for family-planning clinics that offer abortions.

⦁ The opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

⦁ The withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.

⦁ The issuance of new orders Friday to reform civil service rules to speed termination of poor-performing government workers.

⦁ Mr. Trump’s win on NFL policy last week that will bar players from protesting the national anthem on the sidelines….

“Democrats are not interested in giving the president a legislative victory in this midterm year,” he said. “The politics this year are intervening in that.” (Excerpts from Dave Boyer article in The Washington Times)