2026-04-01T08:00:55.267Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：劳伦·福克斯、莎拉·费里斯
3小时前
发布于2026年4月1日美国东部时间凌晨4:00
这场原本是共和党与民主党之间的政府停摆对峙，如今演变成了中期选举数月前共和党领导层内部全面爆发的分裂。
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩决定在与民主党达成的、重新开放国土安全部的协议中不包含移民执法资金，以及众议院共和党人对此协议的反叛，摧毁了对唐纳德·特朗普总统第二任期至关重要的脆弱政党团结。
如今，共和党正处于国土安全部史上最长时间停摆的执政状态，且看不到脱困途径，而他们的团结者特朗普正深陷一场中东战争，这可能给今年的国会带来更多麻烦。
图恩清楚自己必须与民主党周旋，因此敲定了他认为能结束停摆的唯一协议。这位参议院共和党领袖的盟友坚称，他并非单方面做出这一决定，其所在党团成员通过未阻止该法案表示了同意。他们还指出，共和党之后可以通过党派路线动议争取剩余的资金。
据两名熟悉相关讨论的消息人士透露，自周五参议院结束停摆的计划以耻辱方式被众议院共和党人阻挠以来，图恩与议长迈克·约翰逊已进行了多次通话。不过两人都拒绝透露讨论细节或未来计划。
但两位共和党领袖及其各自党团之间仍存在深刻分歧，实质性的两党谈判几乎不存在——这引发了一个现实问题：共和党能否结束政府停摆。
目前两党控制的国会参众两院正处于两周休会期，双方都不愿在没有明确方案能提交特朗普签署的情况下提前结束休假返回华盛顿。而共和党人清楚地意识到，最终协议需要民主党议员的支持，后者在共和党内讧之际没有任何理由进行谈判。
这也暴露出两人之间日益加深的裂痕——此前他们仅在幕后处理过偶尔的战术分歧。如今，在特朗普的支持下，约翰逊发起了一场公开运动，施压参议院返回华盛顿，推行强硬的停摆策略，而图恩则成为了愤怒的保守派反弹的目标。
“我们陷入了两难境地……参议院必须履行职责，帮助我们完成这项艰巨任务，”约翰逊周二在福克斯新闻网表示，这是一次罕见的、针对国会山另一端共和党同僚的公开表态。“我们必须为政府提供资金，而他们却在拿普通人的生活开玩笑。”
身为虔诚的南方浸信会教徒、平时极少批评 fellow 共和党人的约翰逊，在公开场合小心翼翼地没有直接批评图恩。但私下里，他和其他众议院共和党领袖认为，图恩搞砸了谈判，引发了一场可能持续到中期选举的党内冲突。
当被问及图恩的领导能力时，众议院领导层成员众议员丽莎·麦克莱恩告诉CNN：“我不愿就此发表评论，但我建议参议院至少回来进行投票。这是他们当选后应尽的职责。”
行事温和、拥有27年众议院任职经历的摩门教徒众议员迈克·辛普森补充道：“我找不到恰当的措辞来评价此事。”
但当被问及图恩未经众议院共和党领袖同意就推进停摆谈判时，他补充道：“这从来都不是个好主意。我一直告诉自己，好吧，那是参议院。我尽量不干涉他们的事务。但这么做确实值得怀疑，这么说吧。”
不止众议院共和党人在停摆期间不时与图恩决裂：据一位熟悉内部讨论的人士透露，即使是温和派参议员苏珊·柯林斯也拒绝在图恩上周提出的、取消有争议的移民资金的修正案上签字。图恩最强硬的议员之一、犹他州参议员迈克·李连日来一直呼吁参议院复会。
不过，图恩的一些参议院共和党同僚此前承认，数月来他们的领袖一直在应对艰难的抉择。
“考虑到他所带领的团队，他做得已经不错了，”共和党参议员汤米·图伯维尔在参议院通过两党国土安全部协议前评价图恩道。“我们在如何处理某些事情上分歧太大，他拿到的这手牌实在太难掌控了。”
“我想说的是，约翰·图恩是个诚实的人，是个公正的中间人，我认为这一点非常重要，”参议员乔希·霍利在图恩将国土安全部拨款法案提交议会前的一次采访中表示。“这种品质在华盛顿非常稀缺。我从未听约翰·图恩说过不实之词，也从未见他兑现不了承诺。”
不止停摆问题存在分歧。图恩和约翰逊——以及大多数共和党人——在2026年国会应处理的其他议题上立场截然不同。约翰逊坚决主张国会应在中期选举前通过另一项大规模党派政策法案，其中可能包含特朗普的核心优先事项，如选民身份证法，途径是使用和解程序。
对约翰逊而言，取悦右翼阵营对他自身的领导层职位存续至关重要。（而且他在国会山这边的共和党强硬派支持者比图恩要多得多。）
但一些参议院共和党人对此感到沮丧，约翰逊和强硬派保守派竟在众议院几乎没有有效多数席位的情况下推动一项全面的和解计划。他们认为这会导致失败，只会在11月疏远特朗普的基础选民。
一些特朗普团队官员意识到，在距离中期选举仅剩数月且立法内容尚未达成明确共识的情况下，强行在国会通过另一项重大党派法案可能会以失败告终。
但特朗普身边的许多人认为，他们应该尝试一下，急于向“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）的基础选民证明，他们仍在为核心优先事项而战——并且相信特朗普的巨大影响力仍足以说服议员们支持另一项重大法案。
“我曾被告知，一些深谙国会运作的聪明内部人士说我们做不到‘一项宏伟的美好法案’，”一位特朗普顾问说道。“但他们显然做到了。”
资深共和党议员和助手承认，对图恩的愤怒很大程度上源于保守派要求废除参议院阻挠议事规则、允许参议院无需民主党议员投票就能通过任何法案的无休止诉求。图恩——虽然远非唯一希望保留阻挠议事规则的共和党参议员——已成为这场斗争的公众面孔。
在网络上，图恩已成为MAGA影响力人士的最新攻击目标，这些人此前就因他拒绝废除参议院阻挠议事规则（他多次表示自己没有足够票数这么做）以通过总统的“拯救美国法案”选民身份证法案而不满。一些众议院保守派甚至呼吁罢免图恩，考虑到这位南达科他州议员在其党内的支持度，这几乎没有可能。参议院共和党消息人士，包括保守派人士，告诉CNN，未来几个月这种情况极不可能发生。
尽管如此，每当图恩不得不与民主党同僚谈判时，他都会受到抨击——而民主党议员对于结束辩论、推进法案最终投票所需的60票门槛至关重要。
两位共和党领袖之间的最新紧张关系预示着前方的麻烦，共和党正面临动荡的数月：他们仍需通过一项干净的情报机构间谍权力重新授权法案，找到摆脱停摆的途径，同时面临通过另一项党派政策法案的压力，这将再次迫使两位共和党领袖几乎不能有任何叛党投票。
此外还有五角大楼可能提出的巨额资金请求，这已经暴露出共和党内部的深刻分歧——甚至是与特朗普罕见的分歧。
尽管最近在资金问题上的分歧已公之于众，但总统本人一直小心翼翼地不直接攻击图恩。
“我理解约翰·图恩，也理解迈克·约翰逊，”特朗普周五说道。“他们希望确保不会像过去四年那样有人涌入我们的国家。我不想说他们搞砸了。他们让我的工作难上加难，现在我们情况好转了。”
白宫内部人士仍将图恩视为直言不讳的人，以及总统在参议院的关键盟友，擅长在即使党内存在分歧的情况下协调各方观点。
“作为领袖很难，因为你必须应对很多人，他们都有自己的自尊心，都有自己的选民基础，”这位特朗普顾问说道。“无论发生什么，迈克·约翰逊仍将是议长，约翰·图恩也可能仍会担任多数党领袖。也许不会，但谁知道呢。”
CNN的亚当·坎克林对本文亦有贡献。
Shutdown infighting shatters GOP unity in critical stretch for Trump
2026-04-01T08:00:55.267Z / CNN
By Lauren Fox, Sarah Ferris
3 hr ago
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2026, 4:00 AM ET
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, left, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
AP/Getty Images
What started as a shutdown face-off between Republicans and Democrats has morphed into a full display of disunity between GOP leaders just months ahead of the midterm elections
Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s decision to leave immigration enforcement funding out of a deal with Democrats to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and the House GOP’s revolt over that deal has shattered the fragile party unity that had been crucial to President Donald Trump’s second term.
Now, Republicans are running Washington during the longest-ever shutdown of DHS with no path out, while their unifier, Trump, is consumed by a Middle East war that threatens even more problems for Congress this year.
Thune, knowing he had to contend with Democrats, cut the only deal he believed was possible to end the shutdown. The Senate GOP leader’s allies insist that he didn’t make the decision unilaterally and that his members agreed by virtue of not stopping the measure. They also point out that Republicans can use a party-line maneuver later on to secure the rest of the funding.
Thune and Johnson have spoken several times since Friday, when the Senate plan to end the shutdown was blocked in humiliating fashion by House Republicans, according to two people familiar with the discussions, though both declined to offer specifics about what was discussed or their plans going forward.
But there are still deep divisions between the two GOP leaders and their conferences, with fulsome bipartisan negotiations virtually nonexistent — raising real questions about whether Republicans can end the shutdown.
Now in a two-week recess, the two Republican-led chambers are deadlocked with both hesitant to cut short their time away from Washington without a clear solution that can make it to Trump’s desk. And Republicans are keenly aware that Democrats — whose votes will be needed for the final deal — see no reason to bargain amid the GOP dysfunction.
It also reveals a deepening schism between the two men, who have until this point navigated occasional tactical differences behind the scenes. Now, Johnson — buoyed by Trump — is leading a public campaign to pressure the Senate back to Washington to push a hardline shutdown strategy, while Thune becomes a target of seething conservative backlash.
“We have got a dilemma. … The Senate has to do their job and help us on this heavy lift,” Johnson said Tuesday on Fox News, in a rare missive directed at his fellow Republicans across the Capitol. “We have to get the government funded, and they are playing games with real people’s lives.”
Johnson, a devout Southern Baptist who mostly avoids disparaging fellow Republicans, has been careful not to criticize Thune directly in public. But privately, he and his fellow House GOP leaders believe Thune botched the negotiations and triggered an intraparty clash that could last through the midterms.
Asked about Thune’s leadership, Rep. Lisa McClain, a member of House leadership, told CNN: “I’d rather not comment on that, but I would suggest the Senate does come back and at least take a vote. That is what they were elected to do.”
Rep. Mike Simpson, a mild-mannered Mormon and 27-year veteran of the House, added to CNN: “I don’t have principled words I can say about it.”
But when pressed about Thune’s push ahead on shutdown talks without consent from House GOP leaders, he added: “It’s never a good idea. I keep telling myself, well, that’s the Senate. I try not to interfere with their business. But it’s questionable, let’s put it that way.”
It’s not just House Republicans who have at times broken with Thune amid the shutdown: Even centrist Sen. Susan Collins declined to put her name on the amendment that Thune introduced last week to eliminate the contentious immigration funding, according to one person familiar with those internal discussions. One of Thune’s most hardline members, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, has been calling for the Senate to come back into session for days.
Some of Thune’s fellow Senate Republicans, however, have previously acknowledged their leader has been dealing with difficult decisions for months.
“He’s doing good considering the team he’s got,” Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville said of Thune before the Senate passed the bipartisan DHS deal. “We’re so divided on how to handle certain things and he just got dealt a hand that is very, very tough to control.”
“The thing I would say about John Thune is he’s an honest man, he’s an honest broker and I think that really counts for a lot,” Sen. Josh Hawley said in a recent interview before Thune put the DHS spending bill on the floor. “That is a quality in short supply in this town. I have never had John Thune tell me something that wasn’t true and I never had him make a promise he didn’t keep.”
It’s not just the shutdown. Thune and Johnson — as well as much of the GOP — are on different planets when it comes to what else Congress should tackle in 2026. Johnson has been adamant that Congress should pursue another massive partisan policy bill that could involve major Trump priorities such as a voter ID law before the midterms using a procedure known as reconciliation.
For Johnson, satisfying his right flank is essential for his own survival in leadership. (And he has a lot more GOP hardliners on his side of the Capitol than Thune does.)
But some Senate Republicans have been frustrated that Johnson and hardline conservatives are pushing a sweeping reconciliation plan when the lower chamber barely has a functioning majority. They believe it sets up failure and will only alienate the Trump base come November.
Some Trump officials are aware that jamming another major party-line bill through Congress could end in failure, especially with only months left until the midterms and no clear consensus on what should go into the legislation.
But many around Trump believe they need to give it a shot, eager to show the MAGA base that they’re still fighting for key priorities — and of the belief that Trump’s outsize influence could still be enough to convince lawmakers to line up behind another big bill.
“I was told we couldn’t do the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ from some really smart inside baseball Hill people,” said one Trump adviser. “And they obviously did it.”
Senior Republican lawmakers and aides acknowledge that much of the fury at Thune comes from an insatiable push from conservatives to nuke the Senate’s filibuster and allow the chamber to pass anything they please without Democratic votes. Thune — while far from the only GOP senator who wants to preserve the filibuster — has become the public face of the battle.
Online, Thune has become the latest target for MAGA influencers already upset with him over his refusal to kill the Senate’s filibuster (which he has said repeatedly he doesn’t have the votes to do) to pass the president’s “SAVE America Act” voter ID bill. Some House conservatives have even called on Thune to be replaced, which has virtually no chance of happening given support for the South Dakota lawmaker within his ranks. Senate GOP sources, including conservatives, told CNN that is highly unlikely in the coming months.
Still, Thune is hammered every time he has to negotiate with Democratic colleagues, who are crucial to the 60-vote threshold to end debate and move to a final vote on legislation.
The latest tension between the two GOP leaders indicates trouble ahead as the party stares down a tumultuous few months in which they still have to pass a clean reauthorization of the intelligence community’s spy powers, find a way out of the shutdown, and face pressure to pass another party-line policy bill that will once again force both GOP leaders to operate with almost no defections.
Then there’s a potentially massive funding request from the Pentagon that has already revealed deep divisions among Republicans — and even a rare split with Trump.
While the recent disagreement over funding has been on full display, the president himself has been careful not to target Thune directly.
“I understand John Thune and I understand Mike Johnson,” Trump said Friday. “They want to be sure that people aren’t coming into our country like they have for the last four years. I don’t want to say they’ve ruined it. They made my job a lot harder and now we have it good.”
People inside the White House also still view Thune as a straight shooter and key ally of the president in the Senate, adept at navigating sometimes-conflicting viewpoints even within his own conference.
“It’s hard being the leader because you’ve got to deal with a lot of people and they all have their own egos and they all have their own constituencies,” the Trump adviser said. “No matter what happens, Mike Johnson will still be speaker and even John Thune will probably still leader. Maybe not, but who knows.”
CNN’s Adam Cancryn contributed to this report.