Meet some of the 38 Republicans who defied Trump on the spending and debt deal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : He claimed he was merely negotiating "to give the president runway" during his first 100 days by demanding to know what the cuts to government spending would be.
48% : Some of the defectors were among those who showed up at the criminal courthouse in Manhattan last summer to show their support for Trump during his hush money trial.
48% : "The very unpopular 'Congressman' from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great Republican Victory -- All for the sake of some cheap publicity for himself," Trump wrote on social media before the vote Thursday.
41% : There was Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, known on Capitol Hill as Mr. No, who has never bent to Trump and so far never suffered politically for it.
37% : Then there is Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, who has been at odds with Trump since he declined to vote to overturn the 2020 election results and then endorsed Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida for president.
35% : And while they may not agree with Trump on government spending, many have gone out of their way to demonstrate loyalty in other ways.
35% : The dozens of defections were the latest reminder of what has long been true: Trump can derail legislation on Capitol Hill and single-handedly kill someone's chances of rising to a leadership position.
26% : In an appearance on Glenn Beck's program Friday, Roy conceded that he had to "manage" his relationship with Trump after the president-elect got the impression -- wrongly, he insisted -- that he was trying to kill the spending and debt plan.
25% : Members like Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma and Tim Burchett of Tennessee have never voted for spending deals or debt ceiling increases.
20% : Mace has flip-flopped on everything from transgender rights to Trump himself, but positioning herself as a die-hard fiscal conservative has long been part of her political brand.
19% : In 2020, when he tried to derail the passage of a coronavirus emergency relief bill, Trump called him a "third rate Grandstander" and said voters needed to "throw Massie out of Republican Party!

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