Max Rose: The Only Way Republican House Majority Gets Anything Done Will Be with the Consent of Hakeem Jeffries

EXCERPT:

ROSE: "Well, all evidence points to Donald Trump actually liking Speaker Johnson as a person, so it makes it increasingly less likely that he will really rock the boat here. But there are larger political dynamics in the Republican Party at play than just Speaker Johnson, in fact, than even just Donald Trump. We have to remember, there were 38 Republicans that just stood up, a matter of a week or two ago, in open defiance of Donald Trump, the leader of their own party, when it came to voting for this CR because they didn’t want to vote for continued increased government spending. They did that in open rebellion and opposition to Donald Trump, even though they also consider themselves the center of this MAGA base. This was the same group of people that pushed Kevin McCarthy out. It’s why in many ways the only way that this very slim Republican majority is going to be a able to get anything done that is productive in any way, shape or form in the House, that could pass a filibuster in the Senate — remember, that’s 60 votes — it’s going to be with the consent of Hakeem Jefferies and the rest of the Democratic members of Congress, or at least a majority of those members.”