GOP’s latest 'intraparty warfare' puts loyalty to Trump in question: report

While House Republicans feud over the massive government spending bill that failed to pass on Thursday, another group of Republicans are facing a different kind of feud.

According to a new Politico report, MAGA allies are fighting "over the leadership of top Senate campaign groups" following Senator Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) exit from his role as the GOP's leader.

Per Politico, the "intraparty warfare" over "hiring at the National Republican Senatorial Committee and its allied GOP super PAC Senate Leadership Fund" has recently turned into "bickering over whether prospective new leaders are sufficiently loyal to Trump and the movement he created."

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Some staunch Donald Trump allies, according to the report, are making "private efforts to undermine" Brendan Jaspers — who was just named political director of NRSC for the 2026 midterms.

Some MAGA consultants fault Jaspers over his stint as director of campaigns for "the anti-tax Club for Growth, which opposed Trump in the 2024 primary before later making up with him," Politico reports.

While one 2024 Trump adviser told Politico that "the NRSC seems more intent on finding people who only ran efforts against President Trump," the Club for Growth's vice president of campaigns, Tom Schultz, said "Jaspers’ work centered on Senate and House races and school-choice advocacy, and that he 'did not participate' in the independent expenditures opposing Trump in the primary."

The report notes that MAGA Republicans have also "complained about hiring choices by Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the incoming NRSC chair, who ran to be Trump's vice president this year.

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Politico's full report is available here.