Another day, another Republican standoff from the combined onslaught of RINOs and Leftists.

President Trump has the vision. But do congressional Republicans have the backbone to help deliver it?

This from thepatriotjournal.com.

With the economy wobbling between recovery and relapse, Trump’s America First playbook is not some mystery:

[C]onfront economic freeloaders, revive U.S. industry,

and finally protect the American worker.

It is bold. But bold plans need backup.

Turns out, not all Republicans showed up to do their jobs on Capitol Hill. Leftists have already started throwing wrenches into one of Trump’s signature economic strategies:

[A] tough set of tariffs aimed at course-correcting

a country battered by decades of globalist policy.

And in one nail-biting vote, the GOP nearly helped them do it.

In a high-drama moment on Capitol Hill this week, the U.S. Senate reached a 49-49 tie on a resolution designed to strike down President Trump’s latest slate of tariffs. The measure, pushed by communist/globalist Senator Ron Wyden (C/G-OR), sought to end Trump’s declaration of a “national emergency” used to justify the levies.

All Leftists present voted for it. More alarmingly, three Republicans—Lisa Murkowski (RINO-AK), Susan Collins (RINO-ME), and Rand Paul (L-KY)—broke ranks to join them.

The chamber deadlocked. And then came the decisive move.

Vice President J.D. Vance, in his constitutional role as president of the Senate, cast the tie-breaking vote, killing the resolution and rescuing Trump’s economic blueprint—on a margin of one vote.

That moment saved a reclamation movement. 

From The Post Millennial:

There was an old-fashioned conservative principle that believed that less taxes were better than more taxes… That if you place a new tax on trade, you’ll get less trade.

That was Rand Paul’s rationale for opposing Trump’s tariffs. But it reveals more than just economic theory.

To be fair, some traditional conservatives still see tariffs as bad news—just another sneaky tax raise. But Trump’s trade strategy is not Reagan-era economics. It is 2025. We the People have spent years watching China, Mexico, and even European allies play the U.S. like a fiddle. Outsourcing boomed, manufacturing tanked, and the middle class eroded.

Trump is not trying to tax Americans—he is trying to punish exploitative foreign competitors and reward domestic production. These tariffs are targeted tools meant to correct years of economic abuse. They are not big government schemes. They are blunt-force instruments against cheaters who export their goods while importing our jobs.

We are not shrinking the economy—

we are reshaping it to work for Americans again.

And that is a fight worth having.

So why did some Republicans still cave?

Let us not pretend this is about high-minded philosophy. Murkowski and Collins are infamous for breaking ranks if it wins praise from the Beltway cocktail crowd. And Rand Paul, while often principled, still clings to a version of libertarian ideology that does not quite fit the post-globalist battlefield we are living on today.

However, the elephant in the room of which no one is speaking is named ‘Compromised.’ Murkowski, Collins, and Paul have sold out to a higher bidder than We the American People. Their votes have been bought, and their oaths of office mean nothing.

Their argument fails to make any sense. Stripped down it seems to be this: Americans deserve cheap overseas stuff more than they deserve meaningful employment. It is insulting. And dangerous. That kind of thinking hollowed out the middle class. Trump’s goal is to revive and expand it.

Recall, this is Donald Trump about whom we are talking—the man who took a sledgehammer to NAFTA, rewrote deals with Mexico and China, and brought back American jobs that experts said were gone forever. For Republicans to reward that success by blocking the next round of backbone policies? That is not dissent. That is sabotage. And once the sources of the Senators’ having become compromised are determined, it may be proven to be treason.

Meanwhile, thank God Trump knows better. And thank God VP Vance was ready when the moment came.