Trump sends MAGA into a frenzy with audacious threat to Republicans who go against him
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Donald Trump is giving Senate Republicans an ultimatum to receive his backing in future elections.
Those who oppose the president’s massive spending cuts package – which features $9.4 billion in DOGE cuts – risk not receiving his coveted endorsement.
This could mean that next week’s planned vote for the monster bill could become the ultimate loyalty test for a handful of senators who don’t agree with the Department of Government Efficiency cuts.
This especially could impact Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska – who likely aren’t expecting Trump’s endorsement anyway.
Both have shown they can win in their states even without riding the president’s coattails.
Collins, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is up for re-election next year and Murkowski in 2028.
Both moderate senators have said they wanted to adjust the package to forgo specific cuts to public broadcasting and federal funding for AIDS treatments in Africa.
‘It is very important that all Republicans adhere to my Rescissions Bill,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social account.
President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold his endorsement from Republican senators who oppose his DOGE cuts bill
Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska (left) and Susan Collins of Maine (right) have expressed opposition to specific cuts in the bill to publicly-funded broadcasting and AIDS relief programs in Arrica
He stressed in the Thursday night post his desire for defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes funds to National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
‘Any Republican that votes to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my support or Endorsement.’
The vote next week would codify many of the spending cuts Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) spearheaded under the leadership of former billionaire Elon Musk, who has since broken from the president and engaged in public spats with his one-time best friend.
This asks lawmakers to reverse a lot of the spending they previously voted into law.
The DOGE cuts package would rescind $8.3 billion from foreign aid programs, including from USAID and the Pepfar HIV/AIDS relief program.
It also ends $1.1 billion of funding for NPR, PBS and other public broadcasting arms.
DOGE cuts will expire on July 18 if Congress doesn’t act.
The massive package would codify into the law spending cuts spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk when he was leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
The pressure from Trump marks his latest effort to tamp down descent and get Republican members of Congress to fall in line with whatever he wants. Just like he did with the so-called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ the last few months.
Trump signed into law last week the sprawling tax bill, which reduced Medicaid spending while extending tax cuts and introducing new ones.
Republican Senators Collins, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina all voted against the bill – causing a 50-50 tie in the upper chamber.
Vice President J.D. Vance came to his old stomping ground to cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to pass the package.
Trump’s rescissions package passed the House last month by a 214-212 vote. Four Republicans joined all Democrats in the lower chamber in opposition of the bill, raising concerns about the impact on rural media and AIDS prevention.
Now the package must pass the Senate, which Republicans control 53-47.
If the Senate makes any changes to the House-passed version, the House will have to pass a reconciliation bill before the July 18 deadline.
