2026-05-23T10:00:08.091Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
唐纳德·特朗普总统提出的18亿美元“反武器化”基金，进一步激化了白宫与参议院共和党人之间本已 simmering 的紧张关系。
共和党人对党内内讧感到愤怒，并警告称，在11月中期选举临近之际，局势可能只会进一步恶化。
但特朗普的盟友坚称，他并未因反对声而屈服，且在近期其背书的多名共和党初选候选人接连获胜后，反而更加底气十足。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统与参议院共和党人的关系跌至新低点，此前围绕其18亿美元“反武器化”基金的 revolt 暴露了共和党在党派方向和优先事项上的深刻分歧。
据五位熟悉相关对话的人士透露，特朗普及其亲密盟友对周五遭到的批评怒不可遏，而在国会山，共和党参议员和助手们抨击该基金是白宫一系列破坏性失误中的最新一例，他们越来越担心这会让共和党失去参议院控制权。
“总统正把局面搞得无比艰难，”一位资深共和党参议院助手说道。“这是真正的统一阵线。目前所有53名共和党参议员都不满。”
而距离中期选举还有六个月，因内讧感到 exasperated 的共和党人警告称，局势可能从此只会更糟。
这场围绕“反武器化”基金的对峙，给本就糟糕的一周画上了句点：特朗普曾要求共和党在6月1日前通过一项重大移民法案，但该对峙打乱了这一进程，让他们的立法议程陷入停滞。
这也进一步凸显了议员们长期以来的担忧：特朗普没有将精力放在经济议题和宣传关键政策胜利上，以提升共和党人的政治地位，反而因沉迷于个人项目和大范围的报复行动，削弱了共和党在11月的选情。
“这是‘尼禄在罗马燃烧时弹琴’式的时刻，”共和党策略家巴雷特·马森说道。“特朗普，以及在某种程度上国会，目前关注的事情都无助于美国民众——而改变叙事的时间已经不多了。”
就在上周，特朗普庆祝了共和党参议员比尔·卡西迪的落选，其盟友曾投入资金支持挑战者，以报复卡西迪五年前在弹劾审判中投下定罪票。随后，特朗普在下周的共和党参议院初选 run-off 中，公开反对颇受欢迎的得克萨斯州参议员约翰·科宁，转而支持肯·帕克斯顿——多名参议员曾公开警告，帕克斯顿可能会让共和党丢掉这一席位。
与此同时，白宫一直在向参议院共和党人施压，要求为特朗普的新舞厅和特勤局拨款10亿美元。参议院助手和其他知情人士表示，议员们普遍担心，这一个人项目只会加深选民对共和党脱离群众的印象。
当参议院议事规则官员裁定这笔资金不能纳入共和党更广泛的立法提案时，特朗普公开呼吁将其解雇——多名知情人士称，许多参议员认为此举既不当又不明智。
“就连必须通过的法案都开始被舞厅拨款这类事情劫持了，”一位熟悉参议院动态的人士说道。“从士气角度来看，这毫无帮助。”
共和党助手称，在这种背景下，特朗普设立18亿美元基金的举动已然成为一个 breaking point，引发了公开批评的浪潮，最终 culminated 在与代理司法部长托德·布兰奇就该安排举行的一场紧张的闭门会议上。
此后数小时内，共和党参议员们一直在公开和私下明确表示，他们几乎不支持该基金——而特朗普若继续推进此事，可能会危及共和党更广泛的立法议程。
“除非白宫出现某种幡然醒悟的时刻，否则我不知道局面会如何改变，”上述熟悉参议院动态的人士说道。“本周反叛情绪确实升温了。”
特朗普政府对这一挫折不屑一顾，并坚称不会对该基金做出任何调整。特朗普在周五上午试图为该基金辩护，称这笔拨款是个人牺牲，并表示他正在“帮助那些声称自己遭到不公平 targeting 的人”。白宫发言人奥利维亚·威尔士也驳斥了任何有关该基金加剧白宫与共和党议员关系紧张的说法。
“特朗普总统是共和党毫无疑问的领袖、最佳信使和无与伦比的激励者，他致力于维持共和党在国会的多数席位，继续为美国人民赢得胜利，”她说道。
白宫还发布了七位共和党参议员的声明，证实共和党继续团结在特朗普身后，但这些声明均未提及“反武器化”基金或白宫舞厅。
“参议院共和党人需要与他步调一致，不惜一切代价完成他为美国人民制定的议程，”阿拉巴马州参议员汤米·塔伯维尔在其中一份声明中说道。“特朗普总统是总教练，他需要参议院里一个与他并肩作战的团队。”
共和党助手称，特朗普及其高级助手最终预计将与参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩合作，找到解决冲突的途径，但目前几乎看不出他们具体的计划。
一个值得注意的迹象表明，官员们急于缓和紧张关系：白宫官员大多避免就参议员们对18亿美元基金的批评公开攻击个别议员。当被问及周四是否对参议院失去控制时，特朗普简单答道：“我真的不知道。我只做正确的事。”
但在特朗普的圈子里，盟友们坚称总统并未因反对声而屈服——恰恰相反，在近期共和党初选胜利证明他仍掌控着整个共和党后，他似乎更加底气十足。
“唐纳德·特朗普在初选中完全说了算，参议员们却觉得这不算数？”一位接近白宫的人士说道。“参议院对这一基金的反对不会持续太久。”
不过，其他人警告称，如果共和党中期选举前景进一步恶化，未来几个月局势可能会恶化。
特朗普的支持率已经处于历史低位，且没有立即回升的迹象，这可能会加速他的 lame duck 状态到来。他拒绝从舞厅这类个人议题上转移注意力，也没有做出更持续的努力，去解决困扰共和党候选人的生活成本问题。
而且，因长期存在的嫌隙和怨恨而支持罢免现任参议员的做法，让共和党会议内部的所谓“自由代理人”数量有所增加：即将退休的参议员突然更愿意直言不讳，反对特朗普的优先事项。
卡西迪初选落败后，这位路易斯安那州共和党人随即公开反对特朗普的舞厅拨款，贬低“反武器化”基金，并投票支持一项旨在迫使美国退出伊朗战争的议案。
“人们关心的是偿还抵押贷款或房租、买得起 groceries 和汽油钱，而不是拿出18亿美元基金，让总统及其盟友在没有法律先例或问责的情况下随意支付任何人，”卡西迪周三在X平台上写道。
多名知情人士表示，这条推文表达了许多其他共和党参议员的心声，但他们不敢公开发声。但即便到本周晚些时候，参议院内部的情绪也愈发低落。
周二在白宫简报室亮相时，副总统JD·万斯为特朗普推动罢免得克萨斯州参议员科宁的最新举动辩护，称此举是为了任命那些为人民“为好事而战”的议员。
特朗普想要的是“不会被企业说客、华尔街、特殊利益集团收买的人”，万斯说道。万斯此前曾与科宁一同在参议院任职，大学期间还曾短暂担任科宁的法律书记员。
这番抨击很快在沮丧的国会山共和党人中传开，即便几天后，他们仍对这番影射前参议院共和党领导层成员的言论感到不满。
“用这种方式提及我们会议内的领导人科宁参议员，是可耻的，”那位资深共和党参议院助手说道。“除非白宫改变行事模式或行为方式，否则情况不会好转。”
‘Senators are not happy’: How Trump pushed the GOP to the breaking point this week
2026-05-23T10:00:08.091Z / CNN
President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund has deepened already simmering tensions between the White House and Senate GOP.
Republicans are exasperated by the infighting and warning it might only get worse ahead of the November midterms.
But Trump’s allies insist he’s unbowed by the pushback and is emboldened after a string of recent victories for his endorsed candidates in GOP primaries.
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President Donald Trump’s relationship with Senate Republicans has hit a new low after a revolt over his $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund surfaced deep divisions over the direction of the party and its priorities.
Trump and his close allies were fuming over the rebuke on Friday, while on Capitol Hill, GOP senators and aides blasted the fund as the latest in a series of damaging White House blunders that they increasingly fear will cost them control of the chamber, according to five people familiar with the conversations.
“The president is making it as hard as humanly possible,” said one senior GOP Senate aide. “This is a true unified front. All 53 Republican senators are not happy right now.”
And with six months to go until the midterm elections, Republicans exasperated by the infighting are warning it might only get worse from here.
The standoff over the “anti-weaponization” fund capped a disastrous period that derailed Republicans’ bid to pass a major immigration package by June 1, as Trump had demanded, leaving their agenda in the lurch.
It also further underscored lawmakers’ long-simmering fears that rather than helping bolster their political standing by focusing on economic issues and touting key policy wins, Trump was instead weakening their chances come November through his preoccupation with personal projects and a wide-ranging retribution campaign.
“This is a ‘Nero fiddled while Rome burned’ kind of moment,” said GOP strategist Barrett Marson. “The things that Trump, and to some extent Congress, are focusing on right now are not things that help Americans — and time is running out to change the narrative.”
In just the last week, Trump celebrated the ouster of GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, who his allies had poured funds into primarying as revenge for voting to convict Trump in his impeachment trial five years ago. The president then endorsed against well-liked Texas Sen. John Cornyn in next week’s GOP primary runoff, opting instead to back Ken Paxton, a challenger who senators had openly warned could cost Republicans the race.
All the while, the White House was pressing Senate Republicans to authorize $1 billion for Trump’s new ballroom and the Secret Service, elevating a personal project many lawmakers fear is only reinforcing voters’ perception of the GOP as out of touch, Senate aides and others familiar with the matter said.
When the Senate’s parliamentarian ruled that the money couldn’t be included in Republicans’ broader legislative package, Trump publicly called for her firing — a move that many senators viewed as inappropriate and unwise, the people familiar said.
“Even the must-pass stuff is starting to get hijacked by things like the ballroom,” said one person familiar with the Senate dynamics. “From a morale standpoint, that doesn’t help.”
Against that backdrop, the creation of Trump’s $1.8 billion fund amounted to a breaking point, GOP aides said, prompting an outpouring of public criticism that culminated in a tense closed-door meeting over the arrangement with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Republican senators in the hours since have sought to make clear in public and private that there is little support for the fund — and that Trump continuing to pursue it could jeopardize the party’s broader agenda.
“Unless there’s some sort of come to Jesus moment in the White House, I don’t know how the calculus changes,” the person familiar with the Senate dynamics said. “The rebellious nature has really ticked up this week.”
Trump officials brushed off the setback and have insisted that there will be no changes to the fund. Trump tried to defend the fund on Friday morning, casting the settlement as a personal sacrifice and saying he’s “helping others” who claim they’ve been unfairly targeted. White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales also rejected any suggestions that it had strained the White House’s relationship with Republican lawmakers.
“President Trump is the unequivocal leader, best messenger, and unmatched motivator for the Republican party and he is committed to maintaining Republicans’ majority in Congress to continue delivering wins for the American people,” she said.
The White House also sent statements from seven Republican senators attesting to the party’s continued unity behind Trump, though none made mention of the “anti-weaponization” fund or the White House ballroom.
“Senate Republicans need to be in lockstep with him to finish implementing his agenda for the American people — whatever it takes,” Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville said in one of the statements. “President Trump is the head coach, and he needs a team that’s working together with him in the Senate.”
Trump and his top aides are eventually expected to work with Senate Majority Leader John Thune to chart a path through the conflict, though there was little immediate sense how exactly they planned to do it, GOP aides said.
In a notable sign that officials are eager to ease tensions, White House officials have largely declined to publicly attack individual senators over their criticisms of the $1.8 billion fund. Asked on Thursday whether he was losing his grip on the Senate, Trump said simply: “I really don’t know. I only do what’s right.”
But within Trump’s orbit, allies insisted that the president remained unbowed by the pushback — and to the contrary, appeared more emboldened after a string of recent Republican primary victories showed he retained his grip on the broader party.
“Donald Trump runs the entire board in primaries and senators believe that means nothing?” said one person close to the White House. “The Senate opposition to this is not going to last.”
Still, others warned that the dynamics could worsen in the coming months if Republicans’ midterm outlook erodes further.
Trump is already polling at historic lows and showing no signs of an imminent turnaround, potentially hastening the arrival of his lame duck status. He’s refused to pivot away from pet issues like the ballroom and toward a more sustained effort to address the cost-of-living issues hampering GOP candidates.
And in backing efforts to push out incumbent senators over long-held slights and grudges, he’s expanded the number of so-called free agents within the Republican conference: retiring senators that are suddenly more willing to speak their mind and oppose his priorities.
After Cassidy lost his primary, the Louisiana Republican promptly voiced opposition to Trump’s ballroom funding, disparaged the “anti-weaponization” fund and voted for a measure aimed at forcing the US out of its war in Iran.
“People are concerned about paying their mortgage or rent, affording groceries and paying for gas, not about putting together a $1.8 billion fund for the President and his allies to pay whomever they wish with no legal precedent or accountability,” Cassidy wrote on X on Wednesday.
Multiple people familiar with the matter said the post expressed an opinion that many other GOP senators held but could not voice on their own. But even by that point of the week, the mood in the chamber was darkening.
During an appearance in the White House briefing room on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance defended Trump’s fresh effort to push Cornyn out of his Texas Senate seat by arguing that it was an effort to install lawmakers who “fight for the good” of the people.
Trump wants “people who can’t be bought by corporate lobbyists, who can’t be bought by Wall Street, who can’t be bought by special interests,” said Vance, who previously served alongside Cornyn in the Senate and as a college student had briefly worked as his legal clerk.
The swipe quickly circulated among dismayed Hill Republicans, who even days later remained offended by the insinuation against a former member of Senate GOP leadership.
“Referring to Sen. Cornyn, who is a leader within our conference, in that way is disgraceful,” the senior GOP Senate aide said. “Unless there is a pattern change or behavior change from the White House, it’s not going to get any better.”