Less than one month after President Donald Trump was elected and more than two months before he was inaugurated, the media was already speculating about how the real opposition to the new Commander in Chief might come from fellow Republicans.
On November 22, 2016, Reuters reported:
It is no surprise that Democrats in the U.S. Congress will oppose Donald Trump but the most important resistance to fulfilling the president-elect’s agenda is beginning to emerge from Republicans on Capitol Hill.
South Carolina’s Lindsay Graham has started publicly outlining places he might be willing to oppose Trump. He is against the Mexican border wall and is delivering warnings against Trump’s intention to revoke legal status for undocumented immigrants brought here as children – although that would not require congressional approval.
“Republicans will soon hold the reins of the White House, the House and Senate for the first time in 10 years,” the narration on a Reuter’s video from last November states. “But the trifecta doesn’t automatically mean a blank check for Donald Trump get what he wants.”
The four lawmakers most likely “to cause trouble” are Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the video narrator states.
When President Trump issued an executive order to temporarily restrict people from terror-ridden countries from traveling to the United States, McCain spoke out against it.
McCain also cast the now infamous “no” vote that caused the Republican’s legislation to repeal Obamacare to go belly up.
And in that post-election story Reuters published, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was also cited as someone who could prevent Trump from achieving his campaign promises. In Graham’s case, he publicly outlined his opposition to the president’s agenda, including favoring legislation to give amnesty to some 800,000 young illegal aliens who have been protected by the Obama era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
full story at http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/09/gop-continues-to-block-president-trumps-agenda-one-year-after-election/