#House Speaker #MikeJohnson & #Senate Minority Leader #MitchMcConnell have applied dramatically different approaches to #Trump, w/Johnson keeping in lockstep w/ TFG while McConnell has frostily kept his distance. But Trump’s influence has minimized their credibility with & sway over their colleagues. It has also caused some members to fear that the emerging #leadership vacuum & their inability to #govern could cost them politically.

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The #GOP leaders’ shaky hold over their conferences has led #Democrats to fret about whether the #House can again avert a #GovernmentShutdown ahead of a March 1 deadline — as well as whether #Congress may abandon key #UnitedStates #allies during #wartime.

The #chaos that has plagued congressional #Republicans has intensified as #Trump has tightened his grip on the party in his bid to lock up the GOP presidential nomination.

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The #dysfunction in the #House #Republican conference was rivaled only by that of its counterpart in the #Senate. #Republicans this week killed a #border #security bill that a… #bipartisan group of senators spent months negotiating after #HouseRepublicans telegraphed that their conference — & by extension, the #FarRight base led by #Trump — would not support the bill.

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GOP leaders face unrest amid chaotic, bungled votes

Former president Donald Trump has used his perch as the GOP frontrunner to bend Congress to his political whims.

The Washington Post