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Trump runs into Republicans who won't bend
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President Trump is making life hell for Senate Republicans, and they're returning the favor.
Key facts
- President Trump is making life hell for Senate Republicans, and they're returning the favor
- Trump's lunch with Senate Republicans only seemed to move White House-Senate relations from bad to worse
- Trump's push for a pre-midterm elections crackdown, via the SAVE Act, has opened of the deepest GOP ruptures of his second term
- The bloc of GOP senators willing to defy Trump has grown
Summary
"I make no apologies for standing up to the president," Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told reporters after he got into a shouting match with Trump on Wednesday at a Senate GOP lunch. Trump's push for a pre-midterm elections crackdown, via the SAVE Act, has opened of the deepest GOP ruptures of his second term. To his fury, Trump is finding that senators he's written off, alienated or even helped defeat in primaries are choosing Senate traditions over his political demands. In the middle is Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), who's been blunt with the reality that Trump doesn't have the votes to get what he wants.