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参众两院微弱的投票优势让不满的议员拥有了过大的权力，足以阻挠移民海关执法局（ICE）拨款法案和外国情报监控法（FISA）延期投票
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你一直都知道，伊莱恩·费尔柴尔德小姐在《罗杰斯先生的邻居们》节目里念出“回旋镖-回旋镖-苏美尔回旋镖！”这句咒语时，就会制造混乱。
伊莱恩小姐是剧中那个淘气的木偶，长得像罗德·斯图尔特。只要“幻想社区”里有人惹到她，她就会挥舞着她的回旋镖，用这句“回旋镖-回旋镖-苏美尔回旋镖”彻底把整个社区搅得天翻地覆。
如今国会山的局势就是这样。
参众两院的投票优势都非常微弱。共和党议员们因战争和经济问题对总统感到不满，更别提那个现已被搁置的18亿美元反武器化基金了。还有一些议员是被总统在初选中帮助击败的：肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·马西，以及德克萨斯州共和党参议员约翰·康恩和路易斯安那州共和党参议员比尔·卡西迪。如今特朗普总统还坚持要在2028年挑战科罗拉多州共和党众议员劳伦·博伯特，只因她支持马西；而他也没有支持德克萨斯州共和党众议员丹·克伦肖，后者最终也输掉了初选。
众议院共和党内讧爆发，年终之际共和党人互相攻击
唐纳德·特朗普总统周三在众议院遭到重大谴责，众议院通过了一项战争权力决议， effectively halted the U.S. military campaign in Iran.（亚伦·施瓦茨/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社）
我们还没提到总统与即将退休的北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯在1月6日骚乱事件上的多次摩擦，以及对前美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔的调查。党内还有一些反对派议员，比如阿拉斯加州共和党参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基和缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯——后者今年11月将面临竞争激烈的连任竞选。
种种因素叠加之下，国会山如今出现了一个“不满的共和党议员核心小组”。
此外，一些参议院共和党人对白宫积极阻挠康恩和卡西迪的竞选活动感到怒不可遏。今年秋季面临连任的一些国会共和党人现在正试图与这位在党内和国会山越来越不受欢迎的总统划清界限。
参议院共和党人正推进为移民海关执法局和边境巡逻队提供资金的法案。5月底，附加反武器化基金条款的威胁破坏了这些努力。共和党人现在认为他们可以让所有议员保持一致，通过这项法案，不让议员们倒戈。共和党人可能会难以在今年秋季通过另一项旨在降低生活成本、减税、压低油价、为伊朗战争买单甚至为政府提供资金的法案。议员们必须在本月中旬前续签备受争议的“外国情报监控法第702条”间谍项目。但在总统任命毫无国家安全背景的比尔·普尔特尔担任国家情报总监临时负责人后，这项延期变得更加复杂。
这就是为什么一些共和党人认为立法进程可能会受阻。
这些心怀不满的共和党人可能会在今年剩余时间里给共和党领导层和特朗普总统制造不小的麻烦。就像《罗杰斯先生的节目》里的伊莱恩·费尔柴尔德小姐一样，他们中的任何一个人都可以喊出“回旋镖-回旋镖-苏美尔回旋镖”，把整个国会社区搅得天翻地覆。
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（南达科他州共和党人）周二与代理司法部长托德·布兰奇进行了交谈。这位南达科他州共和党人表示，布兰奇“非常明确地”表示该补偿基金已终结。图恩表示，他认为这将为通过移民海关执法局/边境巡逻队拨款法案扫清障碍。
共和党人反弹，特朗普的数十亿美元司法部“盟友分肥基金”威胁移民海关执法局和边境巡逻队计划
2026年3月24日，参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（南达科他州共和党人）与共和党参议员在华盛顿特区美国国会山举行新闻发布会。（斯特凡尼·雷诺兹/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
“我现在不能保证此事一定能成。我们仍在与议员们继续沟通，”图恩说，“一切都取决于票数。问题是‘我们有没有足够的票数？我们能不能凑齐50票让这类法案在全院投票通过？’”
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊（路易斯安那州共和党人）周一与特朗普总统会面，讨论了两周前引发国会山混乱的武器化基金问题。
“我认为该基金已不在考虑范围内，”约翰逊在谈到该基金时表示。
这位议长向总统传达了该基金如何让移民海关执法局/边境巡逻队拨款法案的通过变得异常困难。
“我告诉他们，考虑到我们目前的票数情况，这现在是一个棘手的难题，”约翰逊说。
布兰奇在众议院拨款委员会作证时就司法部预算申请一事表态明确。
“我们不会推进这项基金，就是这样，”布兰奇说。
不给糖就捣蛋：政府拨款截止日期临近，国会面临“恐怖屋”考验
2026年5月19日，代理司法部长托德·布兰奇在华盛顿特区德克森参议院办公楼的参议院小组委员会上作证。（内森·波斯纳/阿纳多卢通讯社 via 盖蒂图片社）
但纽约州民主党众议员格蕾丝·孟并不信服。
“你能不能把这个结果书面确认一下？”她问布兰奇，“我想他们会很乐意得到保证，该基金不会再推进了。”
“我不是要跟你敷衍了事。我只是想说，我现在就可以告诉你，这项基金不会推进了，”布兰奇回答道。
格蕾丝·孟问她能否拿到书面文件。
“我今天的证词会有 transcript，所以那就是书面记录了，”布兰奇说。
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（纽约州民主党人）也对这一声明不以为然。
“特朗普并没有取消这个分肥基金。他没有撤销给自己和家人的特殊税收豁免权。他没有结束腐败。他只是遇到了一个临时障碍。仅此而已。特朗普任何毫无约束力的承诺都是毫无价值的。他的承诺一文不值。终结这个阴谋的唯一途径就是通过立法废除它，”舒默说。
众议院共和党人担心初选落败者可能危及微弱多数优势
2026年3月5日，唐纳德·特朗普总统选择俄克拉荷马州共和党参议员马克韦·马林接替克里斯蒂·诺姆担任国土安全部部长后，参议院少数党领袖查尔斯·舒默（纽约州民主党人）抵达美国国会山外。（汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ-罗尔Call公司 via 盖蒂图片社）
在听证会上，布兰奇重申，特朗普总统与美国国税局就其税单泄露事件达成的“和解协议”仍然有效。
这激怒了民主党人。
“你刚刚给总统家族免除了约1亿美元的税款，”拨款委员会最高民主党人、康涅狄格州民主党众议员罗莎·德劳罗说。
而共和党不满的核心小组可能会在此处发挥作用。
国会共和党人对特朗普总统的反对在最近几周有所增加。例如，卡西迪投下了关键一票，使得关于伊朗战争权力决议的程序性投票得以推进。这发生在卡西迪在参议院初选中输给路易斯安那州共和党众议员朱莉娅·莱特洛和前路易斯安那州共和党众议员约翰·弗莱明之后。
话虽如此，许多议员很少偏离他们一贯的政治立场——即使他们即将卸任。多年来，我听到很多人说，各种议员在落选或退休后的跛脚鸭国会会议上可能会愿意为这个或那个法案投票。然而，历史表明他们不会改变。议员们通常会忠于自己的信念和选民——即使他们即将离开国会。他们不会仅仅因为自己是即将卸任的议员，且他们的投票可能有助于政党或领导层，就突然支持或反对某项法案。
同样，那些即将离任的议员也不会因为落选而心怀怨恨，就出于报复改变立场，进行所谓的“神奇转变”。
但我们很少遇到参众两院票数都如此接近的国会。即使只有一两名议员倒戈，也足以上演伊莱恩·费尔柴尔德小姐的戏码，喊出“回旋镖-回旋镖-苏美尔回旋镖”，把国会山搅得天翻地覆。
查德·珀格拉姆目前担任福克斯新闻频道（FNC）首席国会通讯员。他于2007年9月加入该网络，总部位于华盛顿特区。
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Reporter’s Notebook: Rebels threaten to upend GOP agenda amid growing frustrations with Trump
June 3, 2026 4:31pm EDT / Fox News
Tight vote margins in both chambers give disgruntled members outsized power to derail ICE funding and FISA renewal
By Chad Pergram Fox News
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You always knew Lady Elaine Fairchilde would sow chaos on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” when she uttered the incantation “boomerang-toomerang-soomerang!”
Lady Elaine was the mischievous puppet on the show who bore a resemblance to Rod Stewart. She often waved around her boomerang if someone in the Neighborhood of Make Believe ticked her off, and she would literally flip the neighborhood upside down with her “boomerang-toomerang-soomerang!”
That’s where we stand with things these days on Capitol Hill.
The vote margins are really tight in both the House and Senate. Republican lawmakers are frustrated with the President over the war and the economy. That’s to say nothing of the now-abandoned $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund. Then there are lawmakers who the president helped unseat in their primaries: Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Bill Cassidy, R-La. And now President Trump is insisting on a primary challenge against Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., in 2028 over her support of Massie, and he didn’t back Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, who ended up losing his primary, too.
HOUSE GOP TENSIONS ERUPT AS REPUBLICANS TURN ON EACH OTHER HEADING INTO YEAR’S END
President Donald Trump suffered a significant rebuke in the House of Representatives on Wednesday after the chamber passed a war powers resolution effectively halting the U.S. military campaign in Iran.(Aaron Schwartz/AFP via Getty Images)
We haven’t even gotten into various skirmishes between the president and retiring Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., over the January 6th riot, or the investigation into former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. And there are pockets of resistance within the party from Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine — with the latter facing a competitive re-election bid this November.
With all of that, there is a “disaffected caucus” of Republicans now serving on Capitol Hill.
In addition, some Senate Republicans are seething at the White House actively working against Cornyn and Cassidy. Some congressional Republicans on the ballot this fall are now trying to put some real estate between themselves and a president growing unpopular within his own party on Capitol Hill.
Senate Republicans are forging ahead to finally fund ICE and Border Patrol. Threats to attach language to curb the anti-weaponization fund derailed those efforts in late May. Republicans now believe they can keep everyone in line and pass that bill without lawmakers abandoning ship. Republicans may struggle to pass an additional measure focused on reducing the cost of living, cutting taxes, reducing gas prices, paying for the war in Iran or even funding the government this fall. Lawmakers have to approve a renewal of a controversial spy program known as FISA Section 702 before mid-month. But that’s grown more complicated after the president installed Bill Pulte — who has no background in national security — as interim director of national intelligence.
This is why some Republicans believe that the legislative process could be stymied.
These disgruntled Republicans could make things pretty hard for the GOP brass and President Trump for the rest of the year. And like Lady Elaine Fairchilde on Mr. Rogers’ show, any one of them could proclaim “boomerang-toomerang-soomerang” and turn the entire congressional neighborhood upside down.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., spoke with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday. The South Dakota Republican says Blanche was “very definitive” about the end of the compensation fund. Thune said he thought that it would help clear the way to pass the ICE/Border Patrol bill.
REPUBLICANS RECOIL AS TRUMP’S BILLION-DOLLAR DOJ ‘SLUSH FUND’ FOR ALLIES THREATENS ICE, BORDER PATROL PLAN
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Republican senators held a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2026.(Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I’m not guaranteeing that happens yet. We’re still continuing to have conversations with our members,” said Thune. “Everything comes down to a function of math. It’s ‘Do we have the votes? Do we have 50 votes to execute on getting a bill like that across the floor?’”
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., met with President Trump on Monday and discussed the weaponization fund which threw Capitol Hill into a tizzy two weeks ago.
“I believe that it is off the table for consideration,” said Johnson about the fund.
The speaker communicated to the president how the fund made passage of an ICE/Border Patrol bill exponentially more challenging.
“I told them that it was a difficult prospect right now given our vote tallies,” said Johnson.
Blanche was declarative when testifying about the DOJ budget request before the House Appropriations Committee.
“We are not moving forward with the fund, period,” said Blanche.
TRICK OR TREAT: CONGRESS FACES ‘CHAMBER OF HORRORS’ AS GOVERNMENT FUNDING DEADLINE LOOMS
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche testified during a Senate subcommittee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 19, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
But Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., wasn’t convinced.
“Is there any way that you could put this in writing?” she asked Blanche. “I think they would love to be reassured that this fund will not progress.”
“I’m not trying to be flippant with you. I’m just saying. I’m telling you it’s not (moving forward),” replied Blanche.
Meng asked if she could have something on paper.
“There’ll be a transcript of what I say here so that will be in writing,” said Blanche.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wasn’t impressed by the announcement, either.
“Trump has not killed this slush fund. He has not revoked the special tax immunity he gave himself and his family. He has not ended the corruption. He hit a temporary roadblock. That’s it. Any toothless promise by Trump is worthless. His promises are worthless. The only way to end this scheme is abolish it by law,” said Schumer.
HOUSE GOP FEARS PRIMARY LOSERS COULD JEOPARDIZE RAZOR-THIN MAJORITY
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives outside the U.S. Capitol after President Donald Trump selected Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to replace Kristi Noem as Department of Homeland Security secretary on March 5, 2026.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
At his hearing, Blanche reiterated that President Trump’s “settlement agreement” with the IRS over the leak of his tax returns remains intact.
This infuriated Democrats.
“You just gave the president’s family tax immunity to the tune of about $100 million,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the top Democrat on the Appropriations panel.
And that’s where the GOP’s disgruntled caucus may come in.
Congressional Republican resistance to President Trump has grown in recent weeks. For instance, Cassidy cast the pivotal ballot allowing a procedural vote on an Iran war powers measure to forge ahead. This came after Cassidy lost his Senate primary to Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., and former Rep. John Fleming, R-La.
That said, lots of lawmakers rarely deviate from their customary political convictions – even if they’re on their way out the door. Over the years, I’ve had a number of people suggest to me that various members might be willing to vote for this or that in a lame-duck session after they either lost or are retiring. However, history shows they don’t change. Lawmakers usually remain loyal to their convictions and constituents – even as they exit. They don’t suddenly support something or oppose something – just because they are short-timers and their vote could help the party or their leadership.
By the same token, lawmakers with one foot out the door don’t undergo a magical conversion if they’re angry at losing and vote one way or another for spite.
But rarely have we had a Congress where the votes in both bodies are so marginal. And even if it’s just a lawmaker or two who strays, it wouldn’t take much to pull a Lady Elaine Fairchilde, holler “boomerang-toomerang-soomerang” and turn Capitol Hill upside down.
Chad Pergram currently serves as Chief Congressional Correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in September 2007 and is based out of Washington, D.C.
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