U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House, January 20, 2026. REUTERS Nathan Howard
Former George Bush speechwriter and GOP insider Tim Miller is quick to say how thoroughly Senate and House Republicans have surrendered Congressional power to President Donald Trump and the White House since his return to office more than a year ago.
In fact, Miller says the only way the party has actually managed to stymie Trump since his return to office more than a year ago was by accident.
Speaking to MS NOW anchor Jackie Alemany Miller said he found it hilarious that Trump’s enabling GOP onle recently threw Trump entirely by accident over recent legislation.
“The funny thing about this for … my old people, the more mainstream kind of the old guard Republicans. Oftentimes over the years, they've said, ‘hey, we can't buck Trump on this stuff. We can't vote against tariffs. We can't vote for Ukraine funding because Trump's too powerful. You know, we don't want to lose our seat,’ like it's a political imperative that you stick around with Trump because Trump is so powerful,” said Miller. “But I find it very funny and ironic that by accident on this Housing bill, they bucked Trump because they didn't know that he was going to have this temper tantrum over the SAVE Act, and look at what happened. This thing is now going to go into effect at midnight because Trump's not going to veto it. There's a bipartisan veto proof majority. All Trump's going to do is whine about it on social media.”
Earlier Friday, Trump “boiled over” in a lengthy Truth Social rant, declaring that he would not sign a bipartisan housing bill “in PROTEST” of Republicans’ unwillingness to pass his election overhaul legislation.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) sent the bill, passed with bipartisan support, to the president’s desk, despite Trump blindsiding GOP leaders on the day of the signing ceremony by canceling the event at the last minute.
Still, sending the housing bill to the president’s desk started the inevitable countdown to the legislation becoming law without a successful presidential veto.
Frustrated, Trump blasted a rambling signature refusal, posting, “I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,
But despite this betrayal, none of these Republicans are going to lose their jobs over it, said Miller.
“Like, we've spent ten years being told that they can't have a backbone. They can't demonstrate any courage because they're worried that they'll lose their seat if they do. And here we see on the housing bill that actually, this whole time they could have. Like, Trump’s not as strong as we think.”
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