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Trump’s abuse of the GOP finally draws a gut punch

alternet.org · 11dShare

Ninety-five days from the midterm elections and President Donald Trump’s policies appear to be on the ropes. Not so much with Democrats, says New York Magazine columnist Ed Kilgore , but from Senate Republicans. The word for the day, said Kilgore, is retribution. And it appears to be rolling out of the red side of the Senate “at the very moment the GOP should be transforming itself into a lean, mean fighting machine for November.” “Trump’s most insistent demand at the moment is that ‘his’ Senate Majority Leader John Thune cancel its crucial … August recess to agitate the air over the SAVE America Act, for which there is not even majority support in the Senate, much less the 60 votes necessary to overcome a Democratic filibuster. There are even fewer votes to satisfy Trump’s demand that Senate Republicans just kill the filibuster outright, exposing them to the wrath of a future Democratic majority.” Kilgore said it’s not even clear right now there is a majority for the budget resolution

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