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Could we really be at the point where Republicans have had enough? Or will they regroup after the holiday, after getting fresh threats from Donald Trump\u2014and perhaps violent warnings from his thugs\u2014and once again bow to him?<\/p>\n

Read more Dem lawmaker issues scathing response to Trump\u2019s \u2018demented\u2019 attack<\/a><\/p>\n

That remains to be seen. But this week we saw something we\u2019ve yet to see in Trump\u2019s second term: The GOP completely melting down, canceling votes, going home, angry at one another and at Trump, all tearing one another apart. Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other leaders stood there bewildered, trying but failing to explain this mess to the press.<\/p>\n

We like them tearing one another apart, for sure. The outrageous, unprecedented $1.8 billion terrorist slush fund, coming right after the billion dollar ballroom, was enough to throw Senate Republicans into chaos and recriminations, with Sen. Mitch McConnell, to offer just one example, attacking Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche<\/u>\u2014who\u2019d stunningly accused critics of just not understanding how normal all of this is\u2014charging that he was engaging in \u201cutterly stupid, morally wrong\u201d behavior.<\/p>\n

Given a June 1 deadline by Trump to re-open the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s immigration agencies, Senate Republicans crashed and burned, leaving town and blowing through that deadline. Democrats have been enormously successful at stopping funding of ICE and DHS\u2019s immigration enforcement agencies, keeping them shut down (even as ICE has plenty of money from the big bad bill).<\/p>\n

The GOP has been forced to try to pass the ICE funding via budget reconciliation, which only requires 51 votes. But then Trump made them add the ballroom with a price tag of a billion dollars\u2014previously supposedly being paid by private donors\u2014into the bill. The Senate parliamentarian ruled the ballroom couldn\u2019t pass in reconciliation. In the meantime, on his revenge tour, Trump destroyed the careers of both Louisiana GOP Senator Bill Cassidy and GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky who now appear to be going on their own revenge tours against Trump until the end of their terms.<\/p>\n

Trump always does himself in. Cassidy, fresh off losing in his primary last week to a Trump-backed MAGA candidate\u2014as Trump was determined to slay Cassidy after he\u2019d voted to impeach him for inciting an insurrection back in 2021\u2014voted for the war powers resolution in the Senate, this week becoming the deciding vote to finally pass the measure that would mandate Congress decide on the war in Iran.<\/p>\n

And Senate Republicans became livid with Trump on Tuesday for endorsing Ken Paxton in next Tuesday\u2019s Senate primary runoff in Texas, after they\u2019d spent millions trying to help Senator John Cornyn keep his seat. As I wrote earlier, some Senate Republicans think the GOP could lose Texas because of Trump\u2019s endorsement<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Cassidy, unchained, then made it clear he was not about to fund any ballroom for Trump. (By the way, politicians like Cassidy are not to be lauded now; they went along with it all when they thought they\u2019d be saved, and ultimately they\u2019re cowards.) So did several other Republicans in the Senate. The ballroom was pretty much doomed. Democrats had been ready to add a ton of amendments to the ICE funding bill about the ballroom and make Republicans vote on it.<\/p>\n

But once that was out of the way, Democrats had something else about which they could add amendments to the ICE funding bill: the terrorist slush fund, taxpayer dollars stolen by Trump and his crooked acting attorney general in a bogus \u201csettlement\u201d on a bogus \u201clawsuit.\u201d The idea that money would be going to people who committed all kinds of crimes\u2014the Orwellian \u201cAnti-Weaponization Fund\u201d\u2014including violent criminals who\u2019d attacked the Capitol and bludgeoned cops, landed like an atom bomb on Capitol Hill. The story blew up across the country\u2014people were outraged\u2014and you know the congressional switchboard was jammed.<\/p>\n

Read more Trump reaches critical juncture \u2013 and looks to be walking into \u2018biggest trap yet\u2019: expert<\/a><\/p>\n

Again, how stupid is Trump? You would think that as inflation continues to soar and gas prices are skyrocketing as a result of his badly managed war of choice, he\u2019d at least wait on establishing this \u201cfund\u201d for a few days, until the DHS vote was passed. Sure, it would still be an issue moving forward and cause a blowup among the GOP anyway\u2014and is another disaster for them for the midterms\u2014but you\u2019d at the very least get DHS opened up and have Republicans going home with some <\/em><\/em>sort of accomplishment.<\/p>\n

But no, they go home instead to an uproar from their constituents about this \u201cfund\u201d in addition to the war and gas prices.<\/p>\n

But wait, it gets worse. After the Senate passed a war powers resolution\u2014thanks to Cassidy, who Trump could have counted on sticking with him if he\u2019d not backed a primary against him\u2014more Republicans in the House got some balls. Just before the House was to vote on a war powers resolution on Thursday, bumbling House Speaker Mike Johnson pulled it because he didn\u2019t have the votes to defeat it, and, like the Senate leader, sent everyone home. This was beyond embarrassing and just contributed to the GOP meltdown. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania\u2014a Republican who was going to vote for it\u2014said the votes won\u2019t be any different when they come back, so they should have just voted.<\/p>\n

This is beyond a s–t show. The GOP seems to be coming apart at the seams, under the weight of Trump, who has no clue about what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the anger among GOP senators over the slush fund\u2014and the fear of taking votes\u2014was compounded by Todd Blanche privately meeting with them Thursday, in what was described as a contentious meeting that became a disaster.<\/p>\n

This is how we know the White House is freaking out too, unable to manage Trump or the Congressional GOP. By sending Blanche to answer questions before senators earlier in the week in a public hearing\u2014at the last minute canceling a trip he\u2019d planned\u2014they clearly weren\u2019t expecting the uproar over the slush fund to be so big. As with the war in Iran, they were completely unprepared. The private meeting with GOP senators didn\u2019t change anything, and seemed to make it worse.<\/p>\n

All of this shows that while Trump is simply out of his mind\u2014nothing surprising\u2014the White House is in a bubble, as most Republicans have been. But Senate and House Republicans are starting to experience reality outside the bubble. It\u2019s all becoming too intense for them. Again, we\u2019ll have to wait to see if this is a real breaking point, but so far it\u2019s looking like their turmoil will continue. And Democrats just need to keep stoking it.<\/p>\n

Read more Blanche \u2018looks miserable\u2019 because he \u2018refuses to say no to Donald Trump\u2019: NYT reporter<\/a><\/p>\n