President Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela and threats to other countries, as well as concerns about affordability, exposed fractures within the congressional GOP this week at the start of a challenging midterm election year.
Trump avoided defeat when most House Republicans declined to override the first of two vetoes of his presidency, which spiked a pair of nonpartisan infrastructure bills that would’ve benefited Colorado and Florida.
But it was otherwise a less-than-stellar week for Trump on Capitol Hill, though Republicans are projecting confidence.
“This isn’t an unusual situation, particularly coming into midterm elections, where you have senators that are in tough situations,” Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., said Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
A senior White House official said the defectors represent just a “tiny fraction” of congressional Republicans.
