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Chaos amongst GOP lawmakers threatens Trump’s agenda—already

Editorial Board Published January 17, 2025
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Sure, Donald Trump is about to be inaugurated for a second time, however we will take solace in the truth that his agenda is already on the rocks. Republican leaders within the Home and Senate nonetheless can’t agree on the right way to transfer ahead with laws to make good on Trump’s guarantees.

Greater than two months after Republicans gained each chambers of Congress, Home Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Chief John Thune are persevering with to battle over whether or not to place Trump’s damaging tax cuts for the wealthy and mass deportation agenda in the identical invoice, or to separate it into two.

“Right now, that teamwork isn’t happening. Not by a long shot,” Politico stated of Johnson and Thune’s relationship.

If Republicans cannot even agree on the right way to transfer ahead, overlook about how tough will probably be to pick the finances cuts Republicans might want to make to cross the laws.

That is as a result of Republicans need to accomplish Trump’s agenda utilizing finances reconciliation, which can enable them to bypass the Senate filibuster and cross the invoice(s) with a easy majority—i.e., simply Republican votes. However finances reconciliation has strict limits round how a lot laws can have an effect on the nationwide debt. And it’ll require Republicans to make cuts from different applications to fund the tax cuts and deportations.

And getting Republicans to agree on what to chop from the finances might be more durable than herding feral cats. They will not be capable to lose a single vote within the Home, given Republicans’ extraordinarily slender majority.

Among the many cuts Republicans are floating embrace slashing subsidies middle-class Individuals to buy Reasonably priced Care Act plans, reducing meals help for the poorest Individuals, and making cuts to Medicaid. Good luck getting each single Home Republican—together with susceptible members in swing seats—to vote for cuts like that.


Republican Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio

Even worse for Johnson is his political capital is already waning in his caucus, which can make it more durable for him to twist arms and get his lawmakers to vote for no matter terrible laws finally emerges. That’s as a result of Johnson pissed off many Republican lawmakers when he cowed to Trump and eliminated pro-Ukraine Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio as chair of the Home Intelligence Committee. 

“Mike’s never going to vote for another fucking thing around here again,” the unnamed Home Republican stated. “He’s mad.”

What’s extra, as GOP management quarrels about whether or not to place Trump’s agenda into one invoice or two, Republicans are preventing over the right way to make the damaging laws income impartial.

Senate Republicans are rejecting a income producing proposal from Home conservatives to lift the company tax price, The Hill reported.

“Absolutely not,” Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma instructed The Hill, relating to that concept.

In the meantime, Democrats are watching with amusement as Republicans flail.

“With their slender Republican margin, they cannot cross something shut to what’s being mentioned by the speaker or by Home Republicans,” Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries stated in a Jan. 14 interview on MSNBC.

 

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