Lisa Murkowski Won’t Defer to Trump

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) “was listing all the ways that President Trump’s efforts to slash the federal government had harmed Alaska, from the funding freezes on programs the state depends on to the layoffs of federal workers who live there, when she delivered something of an understatement,” the New York Times reports.

Said Murkowski: “It’s a challenging time right now. I could use nice words about it — but I don’t.”

“At a time when the Republican Congress has grown increasingly deferential to Mr. Trump, Ms. Murkowski has veered in the opposite direction from her party, using sharp words and her vote on the Senate floor to push back on him and his administration time and again.”