Budget Reconciliation Could Be the Beginning of the End of the Republican Party

'Beginning of end': Analyst warns budget squabbles could be start of GOP's collapse

In 2025, President Donald Trump is to the GOP what the late President Ronald Reagan was during the 1980s: the party's most prominent and influential figure. But while Reagan famously said that someone who agrees with him 70 percent is an ally, Trump is known for demanding total obedience and loyalty...

Budget Reconciliation Could Be the Beginning of the End of the Republican Party

“Presidential campaigns are like MRIs for the soul,” said David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s former campaign strategist. I believe a corollary is that the budget reconciliation process is like an MRI for the soul of a political party.   The filibuster-proof process often begins with assumptions of party unity on major issues members and activists, only to discover fissures festering under the surface.  In 2017, Republicans found out the hard way they…