Sam Gringlas
speaker
253 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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But for most of the Senate Republican caucus, I would say no, even though most of that caucus does say that they would vote for it.
It's not something that is driving their everyday moves on the Hill.
I asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune whether Trump's focus on 2020 is coming at the expense of an agenda that will help Republicans keep the majority, not in that previous election, but in this upcoming one in 2026.
And here's what he said.
And I followed up as Thun was disappearing into his office to ask, is it hard to stay focused on those issues in this particular moment when the president keeps blowing up your best laid plans?
And he turned and said, I'm trying to stay focused.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, Senate Republicans would prefer to be talking about the one year anniversary of the one big, beautiful bill, that sweeping tax and spending bill that Republicans passed last year.
They'd prefer to be talking about the bipartisan housing bill that Congress is on track to pass this week.
Instead, so much of the focus has been on Bill Pulte, has been on Iran, has been on this anti-weaponization fund that the administration had previously proposed that could have resulted in payouts to January 6th rioters.
So the attention keeps getting pulled back into these other issues, many of which are premised on relitigating 2020, not a forward-looking vision for what Republicans would do if they hold the majority in 2026.
Well, for a lot of last week, senators had not been able to see the draft of the Memorandum of Understanding, even those in the Gang of Eight, these top Senate leaders who normally would be given a preview of this kind of document.
Once it did come out, what exactly was in it, we did start to hear a lot of pushback, even from within the Republican Party.
You know, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, one of the senators who lost his primary bid,
posted on social media that Reagan is rolling over in his grave.
This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.
Others, like Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, said it doesn't look like the U.S.
really came out ahead in any of this after a months-long conflict.
There are others who are saying, well, we'll wait and see.
But there was certainly some frustration among Senate Republicans on the Hill last week.
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