#House Speaker #MikeJohnson & #Senate Minority Leader #MitchMcConnell have applied dramatically different approaches to #Trump, w/Johnson keeping in lockstep w/ TFG while McConnell has frostily kept his distance. But Trump’s influence has minimized their credibility with & sway over their colleagues. It has also caused some members to fear that the emerging #leadership vacuum & their inability to #govern could cost them politically.
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The #GOP leaders’ shaky hold over their conferences has led #Democrats to fret about whether the #House can again avert a #GovernmentShutdown ahead of a March 1 deadline — as well as whether #Congress may abandon key #UnitedStates #allies during #wartime.
The #chaos that has plagued congressional #Republicans has intensified as #Trump has tightened his grip on the party in his bid to lock up the GOP presidential nomination. -
The #dysfunction in the #House #Republican conference was rivaled only by that of its counterpart in the #Senate. #Republicans this week killed a #border #security bill that a… #bipartisan group of senators spent months negotiating after #HouseRepublicans telegraphed that their conference — & by extension, the #FarRight base led by #Trump — would not support the bill.
#law #politics #VoteBlue #VoteBlueForAFunctioningGovernment #opportunism
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#GOP leaders face unrest amid chaotic, bungled votes
#Trump has used his perch as the GOP frontrunner to bend #Congress to his #political whims
#law #politics #TheDysfunctionIsThePoint #VoteBlue #VoteBlueForAFunctioningGovernment #exploitation #opportunism #MikeJohnson #House #HouseRepublicans #Senate #Republicans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/07/republicans-disarray-house-senate-border/ -