Congressional Cowards is a weekly sequence highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—regardless of how disgraceful or lawless his actions.
Republicans know that the calls for President Donald Trump is making of them are unhealthy. However true to their cowardly kind, the overwhelming majority of GOP lawmakers refuse to comply with their conscience and vote towards his harmful insurance policies, fearing that Trump will sic his MAGA loyalists towards them and tank their careers.
This week, quite a lot of GOP senators voted for a invoice that claws again billions of funding for the Company for Public Broadcasting in addition to international support that Congress had already appropriated—though the GOP lawmakers admitted they’d reservations in regards to the laws.
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A number of Senate Republicans mentioned the Trump administration didn’t present them with sufficient data on what precisely they’ll lower from international support funding, which gave them pause, but not sufficient pause to vote towards the invoice.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) additionally mentioned the recissions package deal did not have sufficient specifics to know the precise funding streams the Trump administration needed to axe, but he mentioned he was voting for it anyway.
Sen. Thom Tillis
However he did make a toothless menace, saying on the Senate flooring, “If we find out that some of these programs that we’ve communicated should be out of bounds, that advisors to the President decide that they’re going to cut anyway, then there will be a reckoning.”
I am certain the administration is shaking of their boots.
And Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who voted towards advancing the recissions package deal to a vote earlier than the total Senate as a result of he mentioned it didn’t have sufficient specifics from the Trump administration about what could be lower, rotated and voted for the cuts when it mattered most.
Even Senate Majority Chief John Thune (R-SD) mentioned the Trump administration has not been particular sufficient. But he shepherded the recissions package deal by way of and voted for it, saying their phrase was adequate for him.
“I don’t disagree,” Thune informed reporters on Wednesday of the GOP members who mentioned they wanted extra specifics. “I think that more specificity would be a good thing, and certainly more detail in terms of what exactly it is that they intend to cut as a result of all this. But I think for the most part, most of our members believe there was enough detail here to make a good decision about whether or not we want to move forward on the package.”
In the meantime, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who caved earlier this month and voted for the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that can kick tens of millions off of Medicaid regardless of saying Medicaid cuts have been a line within the sand for him, is now desperately making an attempt to reverse the injury he inflicted.
Hawley launched laws on Tuesday to roll again a few of these cuts. Hawley’s invoice would nix the adjustments to Medicaid funding that Republicans handed within the OBBB, and would add to a fund boosting rural hospitals which are depending on Medicaid to outlive.
If Hawley actually didn’t need these Medicaid cuts, he may have stopped them by voting towards OBBB, however he was an excessive amount of of a coward to defy Expensive Chief.
Over on the Home aspect, a bunch of GOP lawmakers who presupposed to care about little one intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and releasing the knowledge the federal government had about his crimes voted this week to dam the recordsdata from being launched. Republicans blocked the discharge as Trump rails towards anybody who’s criticizing his administration for not releasing the supposed recordsdata, going so far as saying that he doesn’t depend anybody who continues to be speaking about Epstein as one among his followers.
For instance, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who after demanding the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata for years, voted on Tuesday to dam the recordsdata from launch.
Much more insane is that after voting towards releasing the recordsdata, Boebert mentioned that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)—himself accused of intercourse trafficking minors—must be appointed as a particular counsel to unravel the Epstein case.
“We need a Special Counsel and investigation into this if we aren’t provided information. I want answers. Maybe Matt Gaetz can lead it,” Boebert informed fellow MAGA conspiracy theorist and Russian asset Benny Johnson.
You’ll be able to’t make this shit up.
Finally, daily Republicans are wanting to show that they’d soar off a bridge if Expensive Chief requested them to.
Briefly, they’re cowards.
