The honeymoon period of united GOP government under President Donald Trump is fading fast as House and Senate Republicans increasingly butt heads on major legislative priorities.
The Republican leaders of the two chambers spent the start of this Congress largely unified in their agenda, including passing a massive tax-and-spending bill earlier this year.
Lately, instead of moving in lockstep, the chambers have been making tactical moves to push their priorities on their counterparts. Tensions began when senators imposed a spending package they negotiated largely on their own — including a controversial provision letting senators sue over Biden-era seizures of their ...