Though President Donald Trump is standing firm behind the conviction that a shutdown, however long, is worth getting his wall, Senate Republicans seem less sure.
According to a Tuesday CNN report, GOP Senators are starting to squirm under the pressure with some signaling that they want to vote on the individual spending bills for different agencies that the House passed last week.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), one of the more moderate senators, led the way on Tuesday, telling CNN that she’s “amenable to a process that would allow for those appropriations bills that have concluded some time ago that they be enacted into law — whether it’s the Department of Interior or the IRS. I’d like to see that.”
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) also said that she could “live” with individual agency reopenings while the wall fight goes unresolved. “The pressure is going to build,” she told CNN.
Senators vulnerable in 2020, including Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Susan Collins (R-ME) also have expressed desire for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to allow the individual bills on the floor.
Here we go again, the defectors. Different story, same results with all the concern. Gag me with a spoon.
Stop covering Susan Collins. You are wasting our time
Until they actually vote that way instead of just mouthing it, I won’t believe a thing either one of these “ladies” say:
This rather feels like “this old show?” In which after enough wooing, a cave follows along with an assurance that x or y that she had expressed concern for was promised to be addressed. Collins is now Charlie Brown to Mitch McConnell and Trump’s Lucy.
However, while the numbers within the senate are now better for the GOP, outside of the senate - in the ecosystem that reelections are held in - the numbers keep getting worse for the GOP. If a few more get wobbly… who knows if Mitch might let some movement happen on the floor.
lol I was typing this allusion as you were posting the illustration!