Conservatives complain GOP Congress isn’t doing enough ahead of midterm elections
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Conservative activists don’t believe Republicans have done enough with their congressional majorities, just months away from those majorities appearing on the ballot in the midterm elections.
It has become arguably the top issue in a contentious primary between Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the subtext of broader debates about the filibuster and the SAVE America Act, which have ensnared the Senate Republican leadership team.
Conservative groups are clamoring for the Republican-controlled Congress to pass more legislation and codify President Donald Trump’s agenda, which, outside of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, has substantially been implemented through executive action.
“Conservative trifectas don’t come often,” Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts wrote on X, referring to Republicans holding both chambers of Congress and the White House. “With a $38 trillion debt growing without restraint, Congress cannot squander this historic opportunity to pass a second reconciliation bill.”
“The American people handed Republicans a trifecta and a mandate,” posted the conservative Republican Study Committee. “We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver real affordability wins for hardworking families and undo the damage Democrats inflicted on this country over the past four years.”
Trump signed into law the first reconciliation bill passed by this Congress last year, extending his tax cuts, funding immigration enforcement, and strengthening work requirements for certain federal social welfare programs.
Faced with pressure from Paxton, his conservative primary challenger, Cornyn on Thursday relented on the filibuster in an op-ed for the New York Post.
“Today, Democrats are weaponizing the Senate’s rules to block the SAVE America Act, defund the Department of Homeland Security and hurt the American people — all to spite President Donald Trump,” he wrote. “But they say openly that if these same rules ever get in Democrats’ way, they won’t hesitate to rip them up.”
This is a departure for Cornyn, disappointing some defenders of the effective 60-vote threshold for the passage of most legislation in the Senate.
Former Sen. Joe Manchin, who, along with former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, prevented their fellow Democrats from abolishing or curtailing the legislative filibuster during the last Democratic Senate majority, protested on X, “Eliminating the filibuster would consolidate even more power into the hands of the …
Same show, different day.
Conservative activists don’t believe Republicans have done enough with their congressional majorities, just months away from those majorities appearing on the ballot in the midterm elections.
It has become arguably the top issue in a contentious primary between Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the subtext of broader debates about the filibuster and the SAVE America Act, which have ensnared the Senate Republican leadership team.
Conservative groups are clamoring for the Republican-controlled Congress to pass more legislation and codify President Donald Trump’s agenda, which, outside of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, has substantially been implemented through executive action.
“Conservative trifectas don’t come often,” Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts wrote on X, referring to Republicans holding both chambers of Congress and the White House. “With a $38 trillion debt growing without restraint, Congress cannot squander this historic opportunity to pass a second reconciliation bill.”
“The American people handed Republicans a trifecta and a mandate,” posted the conservative Republican Study Committee. “We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver real affordability wins for hardworking families and undo the damage Democrats inflicted on this country over the past four years.”
Trump signed into law the first reconciliation bill passed by this Congress last year, extending his tax cuts, funding immigration enforcement, and strengthening work requirements for certain federal social welfare programs.
Faced with pressure from Paxton, his conservative primary challenger, Cornyn on Thursday relented on the filibuster in an op-ed for the New York Post.
“Today, Democrats are weaponizing the Senate’s rules to block the SAVE America Act, defund the Department of Homeland Security and hurt the American people — all to spite President Donald Trump,” he wrote. “But they say openly that if these same rules ever get in Democrats’ way, they won’t hesitate to rip them up.”
This is a departure for Cornyn, disappointing some defenders of the effective 60-vote threshold for the passage of most legislation in the Senate.
Former Sen. Joe Manchin, who, along with former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, prevented their fellow Democrats from abolishing or curtailing the legislative filibuster during the last Democratic Senate majority, protested on X, “Eliminating the filibuster would consolidate even more power into the hands of the …
Conservatives complain GOP Congress isn’t doing enough ahead of midterm elections
Same show, different day.
Conservative activists don’t believe Republicans have done enough with their congressional majorities, just months away from those majorities appearing on the ballot in the midterm elections.
It has become arguably the top issue in a contentious primary between Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the subtext of broader debates about the filibuster and the SAVE America Act, which have ensnared the Senate Republican leadership team.
Conservative groups are clamoring for the Republican-controlled Congress to pass more legislation and codify President Donald Trump’s agenda, which, outside of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, has substantially been implemented through executive action.
“Conservative trifectas don’t come often,” Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts wrote on X, referring to Republicans holding both chambers of Congress and the White House. “With a $38 trillion debt growing without restraint, Congress cannot squander this historic opportunity to pass a second reconciliation bill.”
“The American people handed Republicans a trifecta and a mandate,” posted the conservative Republican Study Committee. “We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver real affordability wins for hardworking families and undo the damage Democrats inflicted on this country over the past four years.”
Trump signed into law the first reconciliation bill passed by this Congress last year, extending his tax cuts, funding immigration enforcement, and strengthening work requirements for certain federal social welfare programs.
Faced with pressure from Paxton, his conservative primary challenger, Cornyn on Thursday relented on the filibuster in an op-ed for the New York Post.
“Today, Democrats are weaponizing the Senate’s rules to block the SAVE America Act, defund the Department of Homeland Security and hurt the American people — all to spite President Donald Trump,” he wrote. “But they say openly that if these same rules ever get in Democrats’ way, they won’t hesitate to rip them up.”
This is a departure for Cornyn, disappointing some defenders of the effective 60-vote threshold for the passage of most legislation in the Senate.
Former Sen. Joe Manchin, who, along with former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, prevented their fellow Democrats from abolishing or curtailing the legislative filibuster during the last Democratic Senate majority, protested on X, “Eliminating the filibuster would consolidate even more power into the hands of the …
