GOP lawmakers have increasingly been seen bucking Donald Trump on numerous issues, according to a new report Thursday.
In an article for Semafor called “Trump stops getting everything he wants from fellow Republicans,” reporters Burgess Everett and Eleanor Mueller note that, “President Donald Trump got everything he demanded from his party for nearly a year. Now, suddenly, some of his dictates are falling flat with fellow Republicans.”
“Take Trump’s idea to send $2,000 tariff rebate checks to Americans, for example,” they write before quoting Republican pushback.
“We are $38 trillion in debt,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Semafor. “Any revenue we get in ought to be used to reduce the deficit, not expand it.”
According to the report, “Johnson scoffed when asked whether it was tough to spurn the president on the issue: ‘Does it seem challenging? I’m telling you what I think.’”
“The rifts between Trump and the rest of the GOP are piling up. Indiana Republicans are declining to rewrite their congressional maps at the behest of the president, sparking a wave of redistricting regret on Capitol Hill,” the report states. “Trump’s pitch to eliminate Affordable Care Act subsidies is also drawing skepticism within the party, as is his bid to jam a moratorium on state AI regulations into a must-pass defense bill.”
It continues:
“Republicans spurned Trump’s plans to import Argentine beef and shunned suggestions like a 50-year mortgage. Then there’s the nearly unanimous bicameral vote to compel the Trump administration to release Jeffrey Epstein files and the Senate’s rejection of Trump’s personal appeal to gut the filibuster.”
According to the report, there isn’t a uniform policy to reject Trump, but there are “a lot of cases” of that happening.
“Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said she didn’t see dissidents as behaving in ‘some premeditated’ fashion, deciding that ‘oh, I think it’s time for me to oppose the president and show my independence.’ Instead, she said, Republicans are deciding that ‘this isn’t a good idea for my state’ on a case-by-case basis,” the report states. “There are a lot of cases, though.”
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