Rep. James Comer Becomes Latest Republican To Declare Complete Fealty To Trump

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) declared his fealty to Trump during an interview Wednesday on Newsmax about the budget reconciliation bill recently adopted by the GOP-led Senate that would hide $4 trillion in deficits using accounting gimmicks.

Many House Republicans hate the bill, which Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) told HuffPost was “more of the same swamp stuff that we’ve been dealing with for years.”

Since the GOP only has a seven-vote majority, too many defections by debt-hawk conservatives put the bill at risk of not passing and, thus, hurting Trump’s plan to extend tax cuts to the wealthy.

Of course, Comer, who led a long-fruitless investigation into former President Joe Biden’s alleged criminal activities, supports the reconciliation bill’s passage, and he didn’t understand why his fellow Republican members of Congress were being so picky about parts of the bill and “not seeing the forest for the trees.”

“It’s very frustrating that we have several Republicans, several of my good friends and colleagues, who continue to raise objections to things that really don’t amount to a whole lot,” he said on Newsmax. “At the end of the day, this legislation just allows us to move forward and try to get one big, beautiful bill that President [Donald] Trump was talking about.”

The House GOP’s version of the bill doesn’t raise the deficit by as much as the Senate’s, but it’s still in the trillions.

Comer said he was frustrated that his colleagues are “tripping over a procedural bill” before expressing what was really on his mind.

“I can only imagine how President Trump feels,” he lamented, before stressing that the stick-in-the-muds not voting for the bill have good intentions, but they need to focus on what’s really important: Giving Trump what he wants, when he wants.

“Hopefully, we’ll get the job done today, but it’s a lot of the same guys. And again, I can’t say enough good things about these people,” Comer said. “They want to cut spending, they want to balance the budget, and, in all reality, the Senate is not serious about cutting anything.

“But what we’ve got to do is what President Trump wants — to be able to pass this budget reconciliation bill — because we’ve got a lot of challenges in our country.”

Here’s a clip of the exchange:

Treating Trump as if he’s a king and not an elected official is nothing new for Republicans ― Vice President JD Vance did it in Greenland last month when he justified his fearless leader’s effort to control the island by declaring, “We can’t just ignore the president’s desires.”

Still, Comer’s suggestion that “what we’ve got to do is what President Trump wants” struck many people on social media as just a tad authoritarian.