{"id":278,"date":"2026-05-22T21:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:21:30","slug":"unchained-republicans-brace-to-derail-trump-until-dems-take-over-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Unchained&#8217; Republicans brace to derail Trump until Dems take over: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There\u2019s stupid \u2026 and then there\u2019s special stupid \u2014 and President Donald Trump\u2019s spite is framing him up to be the latter, said former Bulwark editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=276\">Trump launches deluge of conspiracy theories with mere schedule change<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For example, with Trump\u2019s razor-thin majority in the Senate and Democrats threatening to take both the Senate and House in November, you\u2019d think Trump would do everything he could to keep his barely-majority gang happy and on his side. But that\u2019s not what he did, said Sykes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week, Trump crossed an invisible line, and for the first time in the Trump Restoration, GOP senators and reps seem genuinely p\u2014\u2014 at the president; and willing to break with him on issues that Trump cares about deeply,\u201d said Sykes. \u201cLiberated by his defeat, Bill Cassidy cast the decisive vote on the War Powers resolution on Iran, announced he would vote against Trump\u2019s billion-dollar ballroom, called Paxton a \u2018felon,\u2019 and said that he might actually start holding RFK Jr. accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the GOP Senate \u2014 as a whole \u2014 officially killed the ballroom funding. House Republicans also cancelled a vote on Trump\u2019s Iran war and also scrapped a big reconciliation bill that Trump was looking forward to. Sykes pointed out that Republicans even descended on Acting AG Todd Blanche (Trump\u2019s former personal defense attorney) and bushwhacked him, with roughly 25 GOP senators openly opposing Trump\u2019s weaponization fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know you\u2019ve reached a new level of clusterfuqqery when you lose Tommy Tuberville and Ron Johnson,\u201d said Sykes, adding that the sudden backbone could evaporate \u2014 or it could become something much worse for the president.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=273\">Republicans finally see the writing on the wall: DC insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also possible that it could do lasting damage,\u201d said Sykes. \u201cThe GOP has a 53-47 majority, but the number of \u2018unchained,\u2019 or free-range Republicans keeps rising. As right-wing talker, Erick Erickson, wrote: \u2018Between Cassidy and Cornyn, the President\u2019s agenda is going to be DOA in the Senate now. Add in Tillis, McConnell, etc., and why would they bother a heavy lift for Trump?\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sykes notes that journalist Issac Saul recently said that Trump \u201cbasically just nuked his Senate majority for the next months.\u201d And up to 10 venomous and bitter GOP senators now qualify as \u201creasonably qualified to be \u2018Trump-skeptical.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would be a shame, said Sykes, if Trump found his agenda deep-sixed by his own team until Dems storm the Senate and House and bury it for good in November, as polls suggest they will.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=271\">Trump torn apart for cheering loss of American jobs with Colbert cancellation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s stupid \u2026 and then there\u2019s special stupid \u2014 and President Donald Trump\u2019s spite is framing him up to be the latter, said former Bulwark editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes.For example, with Trump\u2019s razor-thin majority in the Senate and Democrats threatening to take both the Senate and House in Novem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Unchained&#039; 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