Last week, GOP leaders in the chamber lost control of the floor and failed to advance their legislative priorities. Now it’s worse.
July 1, 2026, 11:32 AM EDT
By Steve Benen
After Donald Trump visited Capitol Hill last week to meet with congressional Republicans, the president tried to downplay increasingly obvious intraparty divisions.
“For the most part,” he told reporters, “we have a really well-unified party.”
As it turned out, “for the most part” was doing a lot of work in that sentence. Within a day of the president’s comment, the Republican-led Senate gave up on its plans for the week and went home. Meanwhile, in the Republican-led House, GOP leaders couldn’t advance any of their priorities because of opposition from many of their own members.
