NEWT GINGRICH: The Trump-Johnson-Thune budget victory

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

96% : Thune has proven to be a good partner for President Trump and Speaker Johnson.
89% : President Trump, Speaker Johnson, and Majority Leader Thune played this round brilliantly and won a huge victory. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP They also proved that they could pass tax cuts, deregulation, and the other priorities on which President Trump and the Republicans campaigned on in 2024.
54% : In this case, standing up to President Trump might have been a political victory for their base.
37% : Yet, with help from Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, President Trump executed what would have been called in chess a fork.
34% : So, the choice for the Democrats became to pass a bill that gave President Trump more authority to cut government - or stop the bill and give him even more authority.
25% : Then the Democrats realized President Trump could cut more programs and reshape the bureaucracy even more under a shutdown scenario than he could if they passed the bill, which they thought already granted him too much power.
21% : Finally, if you told them that Speaker Johnson, President Trump, and Majority Leader Thune would out-maneuver the Democrats and give them no choice but to pass the continuing resolution or close the government, the experts would have dismissed you out of hand.
21% : More importantly, it rewrote current law to give President Trump and Elon Musk greater flexibility to cut spending and waste.

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