“It is said that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction,” Punchbowl News reports.
“President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune might be about to find that out.”
“Government funding runs out on March 14, just 39 days from now. And with a one-vote margin in the House and the 60-vote threshold in the Senate, GOP congressional leaders desperately need Democratic support to keep federal agencies open.
”“But Trump’s unilateral decisions to begin to have the State Department take control over (at least temporarily) the United States Agency for International Development, impose stiff new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China and strip deportation protection for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans has left Democrats wondering whether it’s still politically feasible to help Republicans conduct any normal business on Capitol Hill.”