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GOP senators burned by Trump ready to blow up White House priority as clock ticks: report
Trump’s Power Still Comes With an InvoiceThe White House Still Owns the BoardThe immediate story is simple: Todd Blanche, Trump’s acting attorney general and nominee for the permanent job, is running into resistance from two outgoing Republican senators, John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, as his committee vote approaches. That is the surface. The deeper fact is that Donald Trump still controls the terms of the Republican Party’s internal bargaining, even when some of its members are finally willing to say no.Cornyn and Tillis are not suddenly discovering principle. They are using the only leverage…
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