Trump Isn’t Getting His Way With Congress Anymore
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Republicans in both chambers of Congress broke with President Trump on Thursday, in a sign that his once iron grip on the party is slipping.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump may be losing his mojo on Capitol Hill.
Both chambers of Congress rebuked the president on Thursday, with the Senate advancing a bipartisan resolution limiting military action in Venezuela and the GOP-controlled House voting to pass a Democratic bill extending Obamacare subsidies.
Meanwhile, dozens of House Republicans voted to override Trump’s vetoes on two separate pieces of legislation that passed unanimously last year. While the votes fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto, it was still a display of intraparty opposition considered unthinkable at the start of Trump’s presidency.
And in the Senate, a Republican helped lead an effort to put up a plaque honoring police officers who protected the U.S. Capitol from a violent mob on Jan. 6, 2021 — contradicting an effort by the White House to rewrite history and blame U.S. Capitol Police for the chaos that occurred.
Although Trump still holds tremendous sway over the Republican Party and the idea of the GOP-led Congress trying to block Trump’s most egregious executive actions remains a fantasy, the day’s events showed some defiance in a Republican-led Congress that served as Trump’s lapdog for most of the first year of his second term in the White House.
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