G.O.P. Spending Hawks Defy Trump on the Debt Limit, Previewing More Clashes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : I love Donald Trump, but he didn't vote me into office; my district did.
62% : He saw a political upside to free-spending policies, including sending out stimulus checks stamped with his signature.
52% : That leaves Medicaid, a health care program for low-income people that makes up about 10 percent of the federal budget.
47% : And he pledged never to touch Social Security, breaking with G.O.P. fiscal hawks who have long called for overhauling the program to rein in its unsustainable costs.
43% : A New York Times analysis of votes on spending bills since 2011 found that hard-right lawmakers associated with the Freedom Caucus have voted in favor of government funding bills less than 20 percent of the time.
39% : Roughly two-thirds of the money the federal government spends every year takes the form of "mandatory spending" -- largely on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid -- that Congress does not need to approve every year.
38% : "President Trump has a lot of sway with Republicans, obviously," said Representative Bob Good of Virginia, who is leaving Congress at the end of the year after losing a primary to a Trump-backed challenger.
38% : Mr. Trump has promised not to cut Social Security and Medicare, which pays for health care for older Americans.
34% : "I did not want to see a failure on the House floor for the first demand that President Trump was making," she said.

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