“Even in his waning days in power, President Donald Trump is still finding ways to inflict his signature loyalty tests on the Republican Party. As the President continues to deny his election loss, Republican members and aides on Capitol Hill are watching with angst as Trump threatens to unravel their entire year-end legislative agenda. After Congress left town this week, Trump unexpectedly posted a video screed eviscerating the hard-fought, bipartisan coronavirus package that passed the Senate 92-6. And Trump on Wednesday followed through with a promised veto of the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act, a defense policy bill that’s essential for governing the future of the Pentagon” CNN reports.
“Through all that, Trump is obsessively pursuing any tactic that could overturn the results of the election, encouraging an already-doomed effort by a small group of House Republicans to challenge the Electoral College results in Congress on January 6 and lashing out at any Republican who calls into question the efforts’ success – even threatening to primary the Senate majority whip over his opposition to the futile endeavor. ‘He’s coming unhinged,’ one GOP aide told CNN.”