The swamp never gave up on trying to resist President Trump’s agenda.
Republicans that Trump thought was on his side turned out to be Judas’s.
And Donald Trump will be red with rage when he learns about one sick act of betrayal.
President Trump’s budget called for massive spending cuts to help put America on a path to dealing with the out-of-control $38 trillion national debt.
RINOs and Democrats teamed up to ignore Trump’s requests to slash spending.
Democrats gloated over Congress killing the Trump agenda.
“These are bills that reject the devastating cuts Trump demanded in his deeply unserious budget he sent to Congress about a year ago,” Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) told reporters. “When just about every secretary came before our Appropriations Committee to advocate for those Trump funding cuts, I made clear to them I planned to rip up his budget and write a new one — and that is exactly what we are doing.”
The budget betrayal hit even harder when 81 Republicans dismissed President Trump’s call to defund the National Endowment for Democracy, a deep state group created to impose a global censorship network to silence conservatives on social media around the world.
81 Republicans just voted to fund NED. So did every single Democrat. If Republicans voted in block like Democrats, NED would be defunded now. But the blocker, as I’ve said so many times, is not Democrats. If it was, all these things could be fixed. It’s the Blob side of the GOP. https://t.co/QWnAbRon2f pic.twitter.com/udxf0cNYKd
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) January 14, 2026
Republicans couldn’t even hold the line on spending after the Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota exploded.
Prosecutors racked up nearly 60 convictions after exposing Somali fraudsters cheating taxpayers out of $9 billion.
Journalist Nick Shirley then blew the whistle on at least $110,000,000 in fraudulent payments funneled to scam Somali child care centers.
After this news broke, Elon Musk wrote that fraud gobbles up at least 20% of the federal budget.
“My lower bound guess for how much fraud there is nationally is ~20% of the Federal budget, which would mean $1.5 trillion per year. Probably much higher,” Musk wrote on X.
President Trump knows draining the swamp starts with shutting off the spigot of federal spending that funds the swamp’s pet projects and power centers.
But Republicans in Congress are showing their true colors as loyal to the swamp instead of President Trump’s agenda and the voters who sent them to Washington in the first place.
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