Once again, a low-intelligence crowd makes unfortunate decisions. Over the past 48 hours, 38 House Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill that the president-elect publicly threw his weight behind after tanking Speaker Mike Johnson’s original proposal to keep the federal government running past Friday. Their defiance came even as Trump and his allies threatened to field primary challenges against GOP members who didn’t fall in line.
Then, on Friday night and early Saturday, the House and Senate passed a different version of the spending plan — one that didn’t include Trump’s demand to extend or end the debt limit.
It’s the latest example of Trump confronting the limits of his power, especially over his own party. Senate Republicans already dealt Trump a massive blow when a handful of them made clear they wouldn’t support Trump’s first choice for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, leading to him withdrawing. And that was after they chose John Thune over Rick Scott for Senate GOP leader against the wishes of Trump’s allies.
And now Kari Fake Lake has identified a brand-new majority consisting of rational Republicans and Democrats calling the new party 'Obstructionists'. Kari is such a political whiz, she has lost 2 elections that all other Republicans won. It's going to be interesting watching your crowd squirm. But what's really going to be funny is hearing you piss and moan when he does the exact opposite of what you thought you bought into.
For starters, "Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous Debt Ceiling," Trump wrote Friday in a Truth Social post.