Love him or hate him, Sen. Orrin Hatch racked up big wins in 2017 on long-promised Republican goals of overhauling the U.S. tax code, erasing Obamacare’s individual mandate and gutting two sprawling national monuments that angered many southern Utahns and Hatch’s conservative base.
President Donald Trump even took a day — during a time when the tax overhaul, North Korea and other pressing matters were on his plate — to fly to Utah to announce the sweeping changes to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments...