2026-06-06T10:30:08.884Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/06/politics/republicans-defy-trump-agenda-midterms
唐纳德·特朗普总统仍是共和党毋庸置疑的领袖。但他在国会山共和党人中的掌控力正在减弱，这些议员对他第二任期内愈发肆无忌惮的决策感到愈发沮丧。
共和党仍有望在下周强行通过一项党内首要优先事项，为移民海关执法局和海关与边境保护局提供700亿美元资金。但近几周来，这项法案一度濒临严重崩溃的风险——此前共和党议员因特朗普坚持设立18亿美元和解基金而发起反抗，批评人士称该基金旨在奖励他的政治支持者。
尽管参议院共和党领袖成功压制了大部分反对声音，但这场激烈的争执暴露了特朗普在国会山支持基础的裂痕。如今越来越多的共和党议员——不只是以往的叛逃者——愿意违抗他，以约束他推行自身议程的举动，这些议程包括白宫舞厅翻新项目、对政敌进行政治报复、处理伊朗战争以及其他外交政策议题。随着11月选举的临近，这一趋势预计还会加速，未来还将出现更多 contentious 争执，比如特朗普推动确认其备受争议的、有望出任司法部部长的提名。
多位了解私下讨论情况的人士透露，尽管共和党议员总体上仍支持白宫的整体议程，但他们私下抱怨称，特朗普及其一连串不受欢迎的决策——包括在共和党初选中支持现任议员的对手——已成为实现他原本颇具吸引力的政策目标的主要障碍。
“我无法理解让总统一意孤行发动这场讨伐战的考量，”其中一位人士在谈及特朗普的报复行动时表示，特朗普任命“让美国再次伟大”运动的忠实支持者比尔·普尔特尔出任最高情报职位的举动，让共和党人愈发不安。“不满情绪正是源于此。民众只是希望汽油价格能降下来。”
从普尔特尔的任命到白宫舞厅翻新项目，再到18亿美元和解基金，特朗普近期的一系列举动愈发让参议院共和党人感到恼火。他们如今担忧，总统不断下滑的支持率可能会让他们失去参议院的控制权——就在六个月前，几乎没人认为这会成为可能。（一些人私下将参议院多数席位面临的风险直接归咎于特朗普，此前他近期插手一场事关重大的得克萨斯州共和党初选，支持一名劣迹斑斑的候选人。）
“大家现在都意识到了……如果没人替我着想，我就得为自己打算，”一位资深共和党助手在谈及处境脆弱的议员本周在议会违抗特朗普的考量时说道。该人士表示，国会山的共和党人愈发沮丧，因为特朗普似乎在“鲁莽地”破坏他们面向普通美国人的政党信息。
超过十几名参议院共和党议员通过象征性投票表达了对特朗普的不满，反对他推动设立和解基金、耗资不菲的东翼舞厅翻新项目、任命普尔特尔负责美国情报行动、严格的选民身份证法等多项举措。这些投票是在对这项700亿美元移民法案进行修正案审议的马拉松式会议期间进行的。
阿拉斯加州参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基投票反对这项完整的移民资金法案——这是她通常会支持的举措——部分原因是她认为该法案赋予特朗普政府过多资金分配权力，国会的监督被削弱了。
在国会山另一端，众议院共和党议员也发出了批评声音。自2月伊朗战争爆发以来，众议院首次投票要求特朗普撤出冲突，有一小批共和党议员投了支持票。一天后，近20名共和党议员投票谴责特朗普处理俄乌冲突的方式，违抗党领袖支持民主党提出的制裁方案。
值得注意的是，本周违抗特朗普投票的不只是通常的共和党温和派。名单中包括多名将于今年11月面临激烈选战的参议员。阿拉斯加州的丹·沙利文和俄亥俄州的乔恩·赫斯特德投票反对该和解基金，佛罗里达州的阿什利·穆迪投票禁止用纳税人的钱向2021年1月6日冲击国会大厦、被判袭击警察的骚乱者支付和解金。另一位受人尊敬的资深共和党参议员、堪萨斯州的杰里·莫兰投票禁止为特朗普的舞厅翻新项目提供资金。（还有一批所谓的“活在当下”参议员，他们的连任竞选因特朗普本人而受挫，包括得克萨斯州的约翰·康恩、路易斯安那州的比尔·卡西迪和北卡罗来纳州的汤姆·蒂利斯——他们都变得更愿意反驳特朗普的优先事项。）
众议院也出现了明显的裂痕。众议院共和党议员中最岌岌可危的现任议员之一汤姆·巴雷特刚刚投票限制特朗普的伊朗战争权力。多位现任和前任共和党委员会主席，包括纽约州的安德鲁·加巴里诺、宾夕法尼亚州的格伦·汤普森、得克萨斯州的迈克尔·麦考尔和俄亥俄州的迈克·特纳，都在特朗普处理莫斯科与乌克兰战争的问题上违抗了他。
“我认为人们当然感到沮丧，”巴雷特在接受美国有线电视新闻网采访时被问及选民因伊朗战争感受到的痛苦时说道。
“我确实能感受到家乡民众正在经历的一切，”他补充道。“我自己也会给汽车加油。我有四个孩子，我们要送他们去训练、送他们上学，开车穿梭在我的选区内。我也亲眼看到了这一切。”
许多像巴雷特这样身处竞争激烈选区的共和党议员，几周来一直在敦促领导层转向能帮助本地民众的立法。共和党助手不断抱怨称，白宫没有推动降低成本的法案或宣传此前的立法成就，反而专注于海外冲突或国内的个人偏好项目。
白宫发言人阿比盖尔·杰克逊在一份声明中表示，特朗普“致力于维持共和党在众议院和参议院的多数席位”。
“尽管媒体和民主党试图制造根本不存在的分歧，但我们期待继续保持这种密切关系，继续落实美国民众选举特朗普时期望他推行的总统议程——尤其是昨晚参议院投票为移民海关执法局和海关与边境保护局提供资金，”她说道。
而就特朗普本人而言，他没有表现出改变行事方式的迹象，对国会山的谴责反应混杂着愤怒和不屑。“蒂利斯参议员是个失败者，”他周五在蒂利斯威胁要反对他有望出任下一任司法部长的提名后说道。
特朗普的顾问表示，他对自己的政治直觉仍充满信心，近期共和党初选中的一系列胜利以及共和党仍团结在其主要立法目标背后的现实，让他更加底气十足。
“特朗普以比现代任何总统都更小的优势取得了更多成就，”与白宫关系密切的前众议院共和党议长纽特·金里奇说道。“他做的一些事未必是明智之举，这几乎无关紧要。你拥有的是一位在80%或90%的时间里都表现得极其出色，只有10%的时候有点让人摸不着头脑的总统。”
不过，宾夕法尼亚大道两端的助手们透露，在国会山和政府内部的部分圈子里，许多共和党人已经开始围绕特朗普制定计划，而非与他合作，他们无奈地接受了一个事实：特朗普不愿为了共和党中期选举的整体需求而搁置自己的优先事项。
“没人知道该怎么办，”一位白宫官员说道，他形容政府的优先事项主要取决于什么能吸引特朗普的注意力。
长期以来私下向高级助手表达担忧、希望影响特朗普行为的共和党议员，最近也开始公开表达这些不满。包括多数党领袖约翰·图恩在内的一批参议院共和党议员本周早些时候暗示，如果普尔特尔被提名为最高情报职位人选，他将面临严厉的审查。还有一些人迅速拒绝了特朗普推动将极具争议的选民身份证条款纳入共和党移民法案的提议。
但距离选举日还有五个月，几乎没人指望特朗普会突然改变行事方式——这一现实很可能会迫使处境脆弱的共和党议员继续与他最不受欢迎的倾向保持距离。
“他们看清了现实，”一位了解私下讨论情况的人士在谈及特朗普的高级助手时说道。“但总统自己就是通讯主管、立法主管、幕僚长等等。”
美国有线电视新闻网的马努·拉朱和艾莉森·梅恩为本报道贡献了内容。
Vulnerable Republicans increasingly willing to defy Trump’s agenda as midterms approach
2026-06-06T10:30:08.884Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/06/politics/republicans-defy-trump-agenda-midterms
President Donald Trump remains the clear leader of the Republican party. Yet his grip is weakening among Republicans on Capitol Hill who’ve grown frustrated by what they view as increasingly brazen decisions in his second term.
Republicans are still on track to muscle through a top party priority next week, delivering $70 billion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection funding. But even that measure had been at serious risk of collapse in recent weeks after Republicans revolted over Trump’s insistence for a $1.8 billion settlement fund that critics say is intended to reward his political supporters.
While Senate GOP leaders successfully quashed much of that dissent, the days of bitter wrangling exposed cracks in Trump’s base of support on Capitol Hill. There is now a growing chorus of Republicans — and not just the usual defectors — willing to defy him as they seek to rein in his pursuit of his agenda, ranging from projects like the White House ballroom and exacting political retribution on his enemies to his handling of the Iran war and other foreign policy issues. The trend is only expected to accelerate as the November elections approach, with contentious fights ahead like Trump’s push to confirm his controversial expected pick to lead the Department of Justice.
Though GOP lawmakers remain largely supportive of the White House’s broader agenda, they have privately complained that Trump and his spate of unpopular decision-making – including endorsing against incumbent lawmakers in GOP primaries – have become a chief obstacle to accomplishing much of his otherwise-appealing policy goals, people familiar with the private discussions said.
“I don’t understand the calculus of letting the president just go out on this warpath,” one of those people said of Trump’s retribution campaign, which grew more unsettling for Republicans with his appointment of MAGA loyalist Bill Pulte to the top intelligence job. “That’s where the resentment is. People just want their gas prices to go down.”
Trump’s recent moves — from Pulte to the ballroom to the $1.8 billion fund — have increasingly grated on Senate Republicans, who now worry that the president’s falling approval ratings could cost them control of the chamber, an outcome few saw as a possibility as recently as six months ago. (Some privately blame Trump directly for the risk to the Senate majority, after his recent decision to meddle in a high-stakes Texas GOP primary in favor of a baggage-laden candidate.)
“There’s this realization … if no one’s looking out for me, I have to look out for myself,” one senior GOP aide said, describing vulnerable lawmakers’ calculation to defy Trump on the floor this week. Hill Republicans are increasingly frustrated, this person said, that Trump appears to be “recklessly” undermining their own party’s message to everyday Americans.
More than a dozen Senate Republicans took symbolic votes to register their discontent with Trump, opposing his push for the settlement fund, his pricey East Wing ballroom, installing Pulte to lead US intel operations, strict voter ID laws and more. Those votes came during a marathon session to consider amendments to the $70 billion immigration bill.
And Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted against that full package of immigration funding — something she would normally support — in part because she said it allowed the Trump administration too much power over where the money would go, with diminished oversight from Congress.
Across the Capitol, House Republicans delivered critical messages of their own. For the first time since the Iran war began in February, the House voted to direct Trump to pull out of the conflict, with a small bloc of GOP lawmakers in support. A day later, nearly 20 Republicans voted to rebuke Trump’s handling of the Russian-Ukraine conflict, bucking party leaders to support a Democratic sanctions package.
Notably, it wasn’t just the usual GOP centrists who defied Trump with their votes this week. The list includes a handful of senators facing competitive elections this November. Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Jon Husted of Ohio voted to kill the settlement fund, and Ashley Moody of Florida voted to bar taxpayer-funded settlements to January 6, 2021, rioters convicted of assaulting police officers. Another respected senior GOP senator, Jerry Moran of Kansas, voted to prohibit funding for Trump’s ballroom. (Then there’s the group of so-called “YOLO” senators whose reelection bids have been tanked by Trump personally, Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Thom Tillis of North Carolina — who have all become more willing to push back on Trump’s priorities.)
The House has also seen notable cracks. One of the House GOP’s most endangered incumbents, Rep. Tom Barrett, just voted to limit Trump’s Iran war powers. Several current and former GOP chairmen, including Reps. Andrew Garbarino of New York, Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, Michael McCaul of Texas and Mike Turner of Ohio, all defied Trump on his handling of Moscow over the Ukraine war.
“I think that people are frustrated, certainly,” Barrett told CNN when asked about the pain his constituents felt stemming from the Iran war.
“I definitely feel what people are experiencing back home,” he added. “I fill up my gas tank too. I have four kids, we’re taking them to practice, we’re taking them to school, we’re driving throughout my district. I see it as well.”
Many Republican lawmakers in competitive seats like Barrett’s have spent weeks urging their leadership to pivot to legislation that can help back home. GOP aides have continually complained that instead of pushing bills to lower costs or touting previous legislative accomplishments, the White House is focused on conflicts abroad or pet projects at home.
In a statement, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said Trump “is committed to maintaining Republican majorities in the House and Senate.”
“While the media and Democrats attempt to sow nonexistent divisions, we look forward to continuing this close relationship to continue fulfilling President Trump’s agenda that Americans elected him to enact — especially last night’s Senate vote to fund ICE and CBP,” she said.
Trump, for his part, has shown no signs of changing his approach, reacting to the rebukes on Capitol Hill with a mixture of fury and dismissal. “Sen. Tillis is a loser,” he said Friday, after Tillis threatened to oppose his likely next nominee for attorney general.
Trump has expressed continued confidence in his political instincts, advisers said, emboldened by a string of recent successes in Republican primary races and the reality that the GOP remains aligned behind his major legislative goals.
“Trump has gotten further with narrower margins than any president in modern times,” said former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who remains close to the White House. “The fact that he also does some things that you wouldn’t automatically recommend is just almost beside the point. You’ve got a guy who is 80% or 90% historically amazing and 10% a little bit hard to understand.”
Still, on Capitol Hill and within parts of the administration, many Republicans have instead taken to planning around Trump rather than with him, aides on both ends of Pennsylvania Ave. said, resigned to the fact that the president is unwilling to set aside his own priorities in favor of devoting himself completely to the GOP’s midterm needs.
“Nobody knows what to do,” said one White House official, who described the administration’s priorities as driven primarily by whatever happens to catch Trump’s attention.
Republican lawmakers who long aired their concerns privately to senior aides in hopes of shaping Trump’s behavior have more recently begun voicing them publicly as well. A wave of Senate Republicans, including Majority Leader John Thune, suggested earlier this week that Pulte would face withering scrutiny if nominated for the top intel job. And a handful of them swiftly rejected a Trump-backed push to insert a divisive voter ID provision into Republicans’ immigration bill.
But five months out from Election Day, there is little expectation that Trump will suddenly shift his approach — a reality likely to force vulnerable Republicans to continue to distance themselves from his most unpopular impulses.
“They see the realities,” the person familiar with the private discussions said of Trump’s top aides. “But the president is his own comms director, legislative director, chief of staff, etc.”
CNN’s Manu Raju and Alison Main contributed to this report.
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