Thune distancing himself from Trump's "Project 2025" executioner goon does not bode well for Trump [View all]

[Miles Archer]

It sounds like Thune and Co are working on Plan B, what happens when the damage becomes so severe that there is no possible way to blame it on Democrats. In reality, we're there NOW, but they are still making that attempt, still banging that "failed policies of Joe Biden" drum.

'We don’t control what he’s going to do': GOP's Thune regrets support for Russ Vought

https://www.rawstory.com/vought-republicans-dont-control/

According to the New Republic’s Alex Shephard, as much as GOP lawmakers want to cut back government services, they also don’t want to have to deal with constituents who can’t get calls answered or see services they depended upon curtail.

Those problems initially arose when Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) hacked away at departments, notably in the Social Security Administration, among others, that had Republicans back on their heels and avoiding town halls.

To that end, when Musk was on his way out the door, many of them hoped that Vought would step into the breach and order cutbacks in a more sensible manner.

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Writing, “the administration is already overplaying its hand, and moreover it’s repeating mistakes that it made just a few months ago when it gave free rein to a different nihilist—Elon Musk—to take a hammer to the government,” he suggested the government shutdown has only exacerbated the problem.