Donald HAS OWNED the US House since he got re-elected….
The headline’s show it…..
The backgrounders also point out that Trump & Co. believe that the President IS THE KING…..
Trump ‘s experience is from the corporate world….
There the Boss IS the BOSS….
But in the US Government?
Things ARE different…(Up to now you wouldn’t think so)
Trump & Co. had a year and a half to ‘do their thing’.
And this time?
Donald has made SURE his staff ARE ‘YES’ Men…..
NOW?
A Midterm Election is approaching….
Some Senator’s, even in Trump’s party, have decided that they are NOT gonna let Trump make them bystanders while they do things that the lawmakers have to answer for and take verbal abuse….
The Senate Leader John Thune is JUST the face for Trump’s anger….
Come January 2027?
Donald is gonna have a bit more to deal with in the US House….
(There IS a outside chance that Democrats COULD inch into a slim majority putting things even worse for Trump)
Bloomberg: “These are fundamentally different people who see government and power in dramatically different ways.”
“That reality hangs over their fraying relationship, and also their fading hopes of passing any major legislation while they try to hold GOP control of the Senate.”
“The president and his allies have frequently derailed Thune’s priorities as they’ve ramped up pressure to change the chamber’s rules and pass the voter ID bill.”
“Thune, a traditionalist who has a portrait of Ronald Reagan over his desk, points to the salient fact that the GOP doesn’t have enough votes to do either.
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Trump demands throw Senate GOP into disarray
President Trump’s demands that the Senate cancel its August recess to debate the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act and advance a budget reconciliation package to fund the Iran war have thrown Senate Republicans into disarray.
GOP senators are divided over whether to cut short the five-week break, which would take vulnerable Republican incumbent Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Jon Husted (Ohio) and Dan Sullivan (Alaska) away from the campaign trail.
They’re also at odds over whether to dive into what Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) warned would be a “risky” attempt to pass a budget package that contains billions of dollars for an unpopular foreign conflict, as well as funding for farmers and election-related reforms.
Looming over it all are the fast-approaching midterms and festering frustration among some Republicans about the curveballs being thrown by the president.
Trump and his allies are pushing hard for the Senate to vote as soon as next week on a budget resolution to unlock the process to advance a $95 billion proposal drafted by the House to help cover the costs of the Iran war — even though Thune warned last week that such a proposal doesn’t have the 50 Republican votes needed to advance in the Senate….
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Senate Republican leaders have also warned it would be “risky” to try to ram through funding for the Iran war right before the election, pointing out that Democrats would force vulnerable Senate GOP incumbents to take a series of politically tough votes during the unlimited back-to-back amendment votes known as a vote-a-rama….
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