Donald Trump clearly fashions himself the King of DC, if not the outright King of America. Now, he wants both houses of Congress, led by his own Republican Party, to bend the knee.
The Senate left town late Wednesday afternoon, and will be gone through nearly half the month of July after what should have been the chamber’s biggest win of 2026 instead left lawmakers shuffling out of the Capitol on a sour note.
Both chambers of Congress defied the stereotype of Washington gridlock and passed a piece of housing affordability legislation along bipartisan lines, with the legislation finding supporters ranging from MAGA Tom Cotton to lefty Elizabeth Warren in the upper chamber.
That was apparently a mistake.
The major bipartisan achievement was quickly overshadowed by the president’s ongoing crash-out over the SAVE America Act.
A set of hardline MAGA election reforms built around voter ID requirements, the bill has become Trump’s sole priority as he faces the fraught midterm elections in November and looks to fight, in his mind, the Democrats’ greatest advantages: using mail-in ballots to boost vote counts and, as he often claims, outright “election fraud.”
Lawmakers flew out of Washington with the housing package in limbo, due to become law but with the shadow of a possible veto looming for 10 days. And it’s far from alone, joining the stalled FISA reauthorization bill and the nomination of Trump’s new director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton.
The upper chamber is now at a virtual standstill, even as Republicans plot a third budget reconciliation package.
Though Donald Trump seemingly has no path forward to see the SAVE America Act become law, he’s unwilling to relinquish his demands — and he’s proving that he can threaten House and Senate Republicans where it really matters.
On Wednesday, his show of force on the Hill led to two Republican senators falling back into line. He may back down, and the push for voter ID may be doomed in the end.
But Trump is making one thing clear: There's no "YOLO" caucus. There never was. There is only Trump's caucus, and his enemies.
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