Analysis: The GOP Senate’s biggest rebuke to Trump yet
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 14 at 2:59 PM It has been a feature of the past two-plus years: Republican senators flirt with taking a stand against President Trump on something they disagree about . . . and then back down. Timidity has permeated the official GOP, and the few Trump antagonists pay the price for their apostasies.
It also matters because, regardless of how few dollars or miles of wall this ultimately will affect, it was a real, concrete action taken by an unusual number of Republicans. Perhaps the biggest substantive rebukes to Trump have been on Russia and Yemen. But Russia wasn’t completely about Trump. Yes, Congress overwhelmingly passed a package of sanctions on the Russians that Trump expressed reservations about. But he signed it anyway. And it wasn’t outside the scope of other actions his administration has taken.
But it’s a step that Republicans have avoided for two years. And it’s one that could contain blowback for all of them. Trump set about trying to make an example of them early Thursday, saying they would all be voting in favor of “crime.”
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