Hill Rs Broke With Trump 5 Times Last Week. What's Going To Happen This Week?

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Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg

Morning all. Given his manic, unhinged behavior in the last few weeks there is reason to believe Trump’s decline is accelerating, as many health professionals warned was likely.

I’ve been arguing that I felt Republicans were starting to spit the bit, and had grown weary of defending the indefensible. Things were beginning to change in Washington. Too much harm had been done to the country; too many elections lost; too many promises broken; too much corruption, toadyism, and desecration; too much crazy, way too much crazy; too much Putin, too many bombs in Ukraine; too much Epstein, disgusting, horrible Epstein; and that in 2026 it was all going to somehow get worse as for Trump as state and local Republicans, returning this month to legislate and govern against the harms the DC MAGAs had done, would struggle, creating even deeper and broader dissatisfaction throughout the party in their failed, addled, and sundowning leader.

In November the US Senate voted 51-47 to roll back his terrible tariffs, and a near unimous Congress delivered one of the greatest rebukes an American leader has ever received, voting to end his rancid Epstein cover up. MTG spectacularly broke ranks, becoming a leader of the opposition, publicly, daily, attacking Trump and Mike Johnson. In December the House voted 231-195 to overturn one of his worker’s comp executive order, and the Supreme Court ordered the National Guard out of America’s cities. Last week, as we discussed on Friday, Trump saw significant defections on five votes in both chambers on one day, an extraordinary act of defiance coming during his Venezuelan victory lap. His grip on the Capital has loosened, dangerously so for him.

What happens this week on the Hill? Just in the last few manic days Trump has launched a full out assault on the Fed (see Chairman Powell’s historic video, below). He is threatening to invade Greenland, bomb Iran, struck targets in Syria this weekend, and last night declared himself “Acting President of Venezuela.” He is now fighting with the oil companies over their reluctance to become part of his Venezuelan oil fantasy; threatened the credit card companies with a law that only exists in his mind; sanctioned the killing of Americans by his paramilitaries for dissent; threatened to veto the resumption of the ACA subsidies if passed by the Senate; and with another anemic jobs report on Friday received further confirmation of the failure of his tariffs to deliver for the country, or Republican candidates facing extinction over affordability. The lunatic HHS Secretary is returning America to a pre-modern health era, threatening the lives and health of tens of millions of Americans. Millions of people took to the streets this weekend, many in terrible weather. We are now more than a quarter of the way into the new federal fiscal year without a budget, and the government may run out of money again in 18 days.

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/hill-rs-broke-with-trump-5-times

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1. Thanks for the encouraging reality check reminding us that Trump is not omnipotent

Some republicans are finally checking their spines out of cold storage, either because they are retiring and don’t GAF, or they hope to have a future in politics in the post-Trump era.