“President-elect Donald Trump’s last-minute calls for for a congressional funding bundle have been rejected by dozens of Republicans this week, foreshadowing the legislative challenges he might face subsequent 12 months — even with unified GOP management,” the Washington Publish reviews.
“Trump’s function in sinking a bipartisan deal to fund the federal government — and his public insistence that any spending invoice elevate the debt ceiling — led to a failed vote on the Home ground Thursday night. Greater than three dozen members of his personal social gathering voted towards the deal he’d endorsed hours earlier. The Senate handed a brand new invoice to avert a authorities shutdown early Saturday; the invoice didn’t embrace Trump’s debt restrict demand.”
“The drama highlighted the bounds Trump faces in bending his whole social gathering to his will, as Republicans maintain a slim margin within the Home and stay ideologically break up over authorities spending.”
Wall Road Journal: How a routine spending invoice turned Washington the wrong way up.
Politico: Trump’s wake-up name: Republicans are prepared to defy him.
