Murkowski Says Her Colleagues Are Afraid of Trump

Murkowski Calls Out Her Colleagues For Abandoning Their Constitutional Duties

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is known as one of a few left in the Republican Party in 2025 who is not an unabated Donald Trump sycophant. She’s been willing to criticize Trump while working alongside her colleagues in the Senate to help pass elements of his agenda, both in the first administration and now. That record is complicated by the fact that she sometimes criticizes things she ultimately votes for or at least helps pass, like her infamous …

GOP Senator on Trump’s Second Term: ‘We Are All Afraid’ and ‘Retaliation Is Real’

Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator from Alaska, told a summit "we are all afraid" of Trump's second term and that "retaliation is real."

GOP Senator admits fear of Trump 2.0: "We are all afraid"

Alaska's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski said the quiet part out loud, admitting that she and her GOP colleagues "are all afraid." "We are all afraid," she said on stage at The Foraker Group's annual leadership summit in Anchorage, after someone in the audience had asked if there was fear of Trump 2.0 in the Republican party. — Read the rest The post GOP Senator admits fear of Trump 2.0: "We are all afraid" appeared first on Boing Boing.

GOP lawmakers have 'every incentive to back Trump' — even on ideas they 'privately disdain'

When President Richard Nixon was facing Watergate-related articles of impeachment in 1974, he talked to Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona) to see how things might go in an impeachment trial. Goldwater, one of the most prominent figures in the conservative movement at the time, was blunt — letting Nixon know that he would likely be a "guilty" vote. Nixon, feeling that he had become politically toxic even in his own party, gave his resignation speec…

Murkowski Says GOP Lawmakers Cower in Fear of Trump and Musk - WhoWhatWhy

Most Republican lawmakers are enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump and whatever it is that he and Elon Musk are turning the United States into. As we have documented repeatedly, many of them go the extra mile to appease Dear Leader(s) with banana republic-worthy demonstrations of adulation. This is especially true in the case of all of the “lawmakers” who entered Congress since Trump first took office. However, there are still plenty of Repub…

Murkowski issues dare to Musk, says GOP senators afraid to oppose Trump but not her · American Wire News

Some Senate Republicans have begun publicly resisting the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its work. These Senate Republicans are specifically resisting calls from the Trump administration for Congress to codify all of the cuts to the federal government recommended by DOGE. “It could be possible that, after careful consideration, we would decide to codify some of [the recommendations],” Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan C…