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Performative Austerity Vanishes As GOP Flees Town Before Trump’s Dictator-Style Parade

by The editor•13 June 2025•Posted inTalking Points Memo

Hardly any Republicans in the Senate want to be caught dead at President Trump’s big boy parade this weekend.

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