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Trump keeps turning Republican wins into loyalty tests — and political liabilities
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- He's repeatedly pressed Senate Republicans to gut the filibuster to clear a path for a voter-ID and noncitizen voting bill that lacks the votes to pass.
- The Senate, in response to the dysfunction, started its July 4 recess early and left town Wednesday night.
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President Donald Trump is turning a series of would-be Republican wins into political headaches for his own party, complicating GOP efforts to show voters they can govern as they head into the July 4 congressional recess, critics say.
In the last two weeks, Trump delayed his own director of national intelligence pick, effectively derailing talks over a key foreign surveillance program that lapsed, then on Wednesday scrapped at the last minute a planned signing of a bipartisan housing bill aimed at affordability.
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