Mo Brooks says 38 GOP patriots defeated Trump-backed budget bill: 'Unfortunately none are from Alabama'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "But they also know that Donald Trump can take them out if he wants to.
37% : The two had once been allies, with Brooks serving as a prominent supporter of Trump in 2020, over concerns about election integrity during that year's presidential contest and ahead of the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
35% : The 38 Republicans, none of whom are from Alabama, joined 197 Democrats Thursday night in defeating a budget bill backed by Trump that would have removed any limits toward incurring additional federal debt for the next two years.
34% : Trump will come into office on Jan. 20, with a legislative to-do list that includes securing the border and extending the provisions of his tax cuts enacted in 2017.
31% : "He then praised Trump as well as Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy - co-heads of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency - "for their efforts in killing the initial 1,500-page monstrosity filled with the swamp's woke and wasteful spending requests.
25% : "Moore also said on the campaign trail earlier this year, ahead of defeating Carl in the March 5 GOP primary for the 1st congressional district seat, that he does not support federal funding resolutions because of the ballooning federal deficit.
23% : Trump has threated a primary challenge against Roy."I am absolutely sickened by a party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility and has the temerity to go forward to the American people and say you think this is fiscally responsible.
20% : But that plan fell apart amid criticism from Trump and his allies, including businessman Elon Musk.
19% : Brooks, since he lost the U.S. Senate primary to Britt in 2022, has been critical of Trump.
13% : Alabama's Republican congressional delegation is "between a rock and a hard place" by supporting President-elect Donald Trump's call to eliminate the federal debt ceiling for at least the next two years, said former Republican Congressman and House Freedom Caucus member Mo Brooks.Brooks, once an alley with Trump before the two had a falling out during the 2022 U.S. Senate campaign, praised the 38 Republicans he said were "brave enough to vote for America" despite what he said was a political threat by Trump to support primary challengers against them in future elections.
12% : "Donald Trump, in 2015 and 2016, promised to pay off all of America's debt and, instead, he did the exact opposite increasing America's debt by more than $7 trillion in a mere four years," Brooks said, calling the first Trump Administration's approach toward the federal debt as, "far and away the worst financial irresponsibility of any president in American history.
9% : The relationship turned sour after Trump pulled his endorsement of Brooks, giving it to Britt instead, months after a fallout from a 2021 rally in Cullman in which Brooks suggested Trump supporters should move on from the 2020 election.

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