GOP cringing at 'recipe for disaster' if forced to negotiate with Dems: reporter

According to longtime Beltway reporter David Drucker, failure is not an option for the Republican party as they attempt to create a budget bill that can make it to Donald Trump's desk.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the Dispatch reporter said that MAGA voters would not be forgiving if the president's "big beautiful" as it is now written falters, forcing GOP lawmakers to start over.

Speaking with co-host Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Drucker acknowledged that influential billionaire Elon Musk is demanding conservatives "kill the bill," but that Republicans may not have any choice to push it through.

Asked by host Scarborough if there are 4 or 5 GOP lawmakers "left in the the House that say no derail the bill," Drucker reported that would be tantamount to "saying no to President Donald Trump and their voters trust Trump more than they trust them."

"So as long as Trump wants this bill, this bill is likely to pass one way or the other," he continued. "Now, I've talked to Republican strategists about this, and this is the point I want to make: is that Republicans with their, you know, thin majorities in the House and Senate really aren't doing much else.

"Every ounce of energy they have, most of the legislation that they might pass is all rolled up into this reconciliation package," he elaborated. "That includes a lot of the tax cuts for middle and lower-class voters that the president campaigned on. It also includes a lot of the border security components that are broadly popular that he campaigned on, and so if this thing collapses, the entire Trump agenda collapses –– that which he can't do by executive order –– and the entire congressional Republican agenda collapses."

"They risk going to the voters empty-handed next year and that's a recipe for disaster," he pointed out.

"One other thing here, Republicans have told me that if they were to start from scratch and do this in a way that wasn't going to add to the debt, that would require actual normal legislating, and they'd have to negotiate with Democrats, at least in the Senate, where Democrats can filibuster," he predicted. "And the Republican base would look at that as a complete failure and be really, really upset that they weren't just plowing this stuff through."

"So there are a lot of political considerations that are, not surprisingly, are looming larger in the minds of these Republicans than the fiscal considerations, because no voter finally here, no voters are beating on their door complaining about the debt –– they're just not," he added.

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