Farce Turns to Tragedy in the House
But House Republicans also fiercely opposed helping Ukraine fight Russian president Vladimir Putin, along with a new border law. Why? Trump ordered them to kill a border bill.
Worse, he praised Russia's attacking a NATO ally.
"I would encourage them (Russia) to do whatever the hell they want," Trump said.
Trump's tongue, lately even more unleashed, is taking us into dangerous times.
"Democracy is under siege," Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said.
To meet Senate Republican demands, Schumer and McConnell named three younger senators -- Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; James Lankford, R-Okla.; and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz. -- to write law to govern the overflowing southern border. That task took months, but they met in the middle, as senators once did.
But then Senate Republicans also got the memo from Trump to sink the border deal, and they did -- a betrayal of the good faith, word-is-your-bond way things worked.
Murphy, frustrated, said Republican senators think they're loftier and above the House Republican rabble.
"Now we know there is no difference," he said. A low blow, not quite right.
To his credit, Schumer kept the Senate in a rare weekend session to take up a Ukraine-Israel-Taiwan military aid bill -- until the job got done. It passed with 22 Republican votes.
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