Angry Republican senators refused to advance a $1.776 billion fund for Jan. 6 rioters and others Trump believes were wrongly prosecuted. They closed up shop, leaving the GOP’s top priority—passing a roughly $70 billion budget package to fund immigration and deportation operations through 2029—left in shambles. Voting was postponed until Congress resumes next month, blowing past Trump’s June 1 deadline to have the package on his desk. Trump responded to questions about losing control of the Senate by saying he did not know. The week followed midterm primary wins where Trump targeted Republicans who did not yield to his views. In the House, enough GOP lawmakers broke ranks to support a war powers resolution aimed at halting military action in Iran, prompting Speaker Mike Johnson to postpone voting.
"They simply refused, closed up shop, and went home. The moment was as rare as it was daring, a sudden flex from the Congress that has become a shell of its former self as a coequal branch, the Republican majority almost always more willing to accommodate the Republican president than to confront him."
"The result left in shambles, for now, the GOP's top priority of passing a roughly $70 billion budget package that would fuel Trump's immigration and deportation operations for the remainder of his presidential term, into 2029. The voting was postponed until Congress resumes next month, blowing Trump's June 1 deadline to have it on his desk."
"Trump, asked during an event at the Oval Office if he was losing control of the Senate, shrugged. "I really don't know," the president said."
"It all caps a bruising week after the president swept midterm primary elections, taking down one Republican after another - Sen. Bill Cassidy in Louisiana and Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky, and endorsing the challenger to Sen. John Cornyn in Texas - turning the might of his Make America Great Again movement against those who have stuck to their own views, rather than yield to his."
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