A Few Defections Can’t Shake Trump’s Hold on GOP Congress |
Beltway political observers are accustomed to the sort of craven submission to Donald Trump’s wishes that led congressional Republicans to enact the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and ignore serial executive-branch encroachments on the legislative branch’s constitutional prerogatives. So it’s understandable that they would get a mite excited when in a single week some members of the president’s party twice defied his instructions, per Politico’s Mia McCarthy:
Donald Trump’s grip on congressional Republicans is slipping.
A series of rebukes on the Hill on Thursday highlighted how rank-and-file Republicans are starting to move with less regard for the president heading into the midterms.
Two votes, one in the House and one in the Senate, provide the key evidence for this new-found independence. Seventeen House Republicans voted with Democrats to pass a