Is President Trump Losing His Parties Support in the US Senate?…..

The Filibuster isn’t going anywhere…

Neither is the present Parliamentarian…

A year and half into Trump’s second term things HAVE changed….

Watching Trump & Co. go around them time and again…..

Watching Trump & Co. ignore Congress open his ‘War’….

Watching Trump DOING things with NO regard for the political position he puts his parties people in….

AND?

The prospect of Democrats actually squeezing out a majority come next year?

Hummmmm?

President Trump’s relationship with key Senate Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), is crumbling after repeated clashes over strategy on an array of issues. The two sides are splitting further apart as the midterm election nears and GOP lawmakers fear the potential loss of both chambers of Congress.

GOP senators say there has been a major loss of trust between the president and many members of their conference as the White House has repeatedly blindsided Thune and other Republican leaders.

Trump will have a chance to discuss his differences with Republican senators in person this Wednesday, when he is invited to speak to the Steering Committee on Capitol Hill. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), the Steering Committee’s chair and a close ally of the president, extended the invitation.

The president undercut GOP leaders last week when he suddenly ordered Jay Clayton, his nominee to serve as director of national intelligence, to not show up at his Senate confirmation hearing. The reversal of the plan left Thune and other Republicans dumbfounded.

Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), who lost his Senate Republican primary runoff by 27 points after Trump blasted him as “very disloyal” and endorsed his opponent, said Republican colleagues are feeling betrayed by what some of them view as the president’s lack of respect for them as senators and, in most cases, loyal Republicans….

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Republican senators are growing more and more frustrated over Trump’s unrelenting calls to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, which would require people to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote and to show photo ID when voting, despite the fact that it has already failed five times on the floor….

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Now Republican senators are facing questions about why the White House is so out of step with their leadership, and they are struggling to come up with answers…

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— such as the decision to block Clayton and to push for $1 billion in taxpayer money for the new White House ballroom.

“This is par for the course. Before, members might be appalled, then it becomes that members are frustrated. Now, it’s members are resigned to these type of decisions that are inexplicable, there’s not a good explanation,” the aide said of Trump’s sudden opposition to moving Clayton’s nomination and his doubling down on attaching the SAVE America Act to the FISA bill….

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Trump, unpopular, knee deep in a war/conflict, and bad economy, even more unpopular is NOT helping things for BOTH….

image of a Unhappy Sen. Thune…..The Indépendant