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How long can this “Weekend at Bernie’s” presidency go on?

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26.06.2026

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How long can this “Weekend at Bernie’s” presidency go on?

Trump fever is finally breaking on Capitol Hill, this time for real. What in God’s name happens now?

Published June 26, 2026 9:00AM (EDT)

With Donald Trump‘s refusal to sign a bipartisan housing bill that Republicans hoped might save them from doom in the upcoming midterms, even GOP members of Congress are now openly viewing the president with anger and derision. Senate Majority Leader John Thune laughed out loud when asked about Trump’s abrupt cancellation of the planned White House signing ceremony.

Other House Republicans weren’t as nice. “It’s a f**ing s**t show, isn’t it?” one member told me. “It’s always about him. That’s his only idea. He’s nuts.”

We no longer live in a nation known for its bright ideas — at least not since the Kennedy era — and some would argue you’d have to go as far back as Teddy Roosevelt.

But Trump’s obstinacy over a housing bill that passed Congress with a huge majority, combined with his horrible deal to extricate the U.S. from the Iran war and the grotesque algae bloom in the Reflecting Pool, make it apparent that Trump fever has finally broken on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who was among a group of Senate Republicans meeting with Trump on Wednesday, reportedly ended up in a shouting match some observers ranked as a “seven out of 10.” On what? The Richter scale, I suppose. Some inside the room compared it to “two boys at recess yelling at each other over a foul on the basketball court.”

Cassidy said afterward that Trump has asked him,”Why would........

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