Two Senate Republicans—Maine's Susan Collins and North Carolina's Richard Burr—finally decided that popular vote loser Donald Trump has just gone too far. No, not on baby prisons, but on spending cuts. They didn't like their role as the people who decide where money is spent to be questioned by him, so they joined with Democrats to keep his rescissions package off of the floor, 50-48.
The White House didn't send Vice President Pence to their rescue on this one, perhaps deciding that right now wasn't the time to press the issue. Or maybe McConnell didn't send up the bat signal, figuring there were other fights to be had. This one would have been ugly, with Democrats bringing up lots of points of order and parliamentary inquiries about how Republicans were taking money away from the Children's Health Insurance Program and Ebola funding.
Now how hard was that, Sen. Collins? Sen. Burr? This was helpful, but it's not by any means enough to make up for your ongoing complicity in Trump's child abduction and imprisonment policy.
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