Republicans in the House and Senate splintered this week as the party squabbled over its strategy on handling the partial government shutdown and then sent members home for a two-week recess without solving the deadlock.
In interviews, GOP senators publicly disparaged their own party’s strategy even as they refrained from lobbing personal attacks at individual Republicans by name. The scale of the grumbling indicates that Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson are under increasing pressure to bring lawmakers back to D.C. to break the logjam.
