Trump Creates a Mess on Capitol Hill

Punchbowl News: “Trump is openly warring with GOP senators and grinding their legislative agenda to a halt. The president rarely talks about the tax-cut bill he helped name and pass. Some Senate Republicans are even questioning whether Trump is intentionally trying to blow up his party’s majorities in both chambers.”

“Trump is holding pretty much everything hostage over a bill that has almost no chance of passing unless the Senate changes its own rules — the SAVE America Act.”

Politico: “The president’s insistence that Congress pass the controversial election security legislation has ground both chambers to a halt.”

“The deadlock threatens to derail a host of other legislative efforts Republicans and the White House hoped to complete in the coming weeks, including a sweeping reconciliation bill filled with potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in Iran war military funding, billions of dollars in relief for farmers, fiscal 2027 funding bills and the annual defense policy bill.”