“Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are going to make some great speeches, but remember, these individual legislators, even the best of them, are operating as a small piece of a large body, and that large body doesn’t really care about the country,” said Mark Meckler, president of Citizens for Self-Governance and co-founder of Tea Party Patriots.
Mr. Meckler said that while Mr. Trump represents a break in the White House, Congress is still controlled by Republicans who failed to overturn any of President Obama’s agenda.
“This is the same Congress that we had before this election, with the same steely eyed leadership that defunded Obamacare — oh wait, they didn’t do that. This is the same steely eyed leadership that prevented Obama from funding executive [immigration] amnesty — oh wait, they didn’t do that,” he said. “Everybody thinks things are going to be so incredible because Trump is going to be in office. I would argue we don’t know.”
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