Despite the fact that former President Donald Trump has formally assumed control of the Republican Party, his party users have consistently failed to fulfill his wishes.
The former president has attempted to use the close relationship with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA ) to advance his own legislative agenda. Despite his reputation within the party, but, Republicans have repeatedly failed him for one reason or another.
Below are four methods that House Republicans have let Trump down:
Failure to oust Joe Biden
Trump sought to possess the favor of House Republicans by allowing President Joe Biden to bear the cost of being the only 21st-century leader to be impeached after his own two previous attempts to do so. House Republicans are almost under any strain from the move because their unhappiness for Biden is the one thing that brings them all together.
These efforts have come to naught, however, despite an enormous energy from House Republicans, who sifted through tons of paperwork, primarily related to claims that Hunter Biden wielded his family’s political power for economic gain.
The intricate web of foreign connections has excited many Republicans, but its complicated nature and competing, sometimes hostile witnesses, have failed to pull together a solid enough case to move forward.
Nearly a year and a half after the initial inquiries began, it seems as though the attempt to remove Biden from office is failing.
Failure to prioritize legislation that would transfer cases between the president and the courts
Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC ) introduced a bill in 2023 that would neuter district attorneys like Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg and allow presidents charged with cases at the state level to file their cases in federal court. The bill was dormant without much interest for more than a year.
However, Politico reported that the bill has rekindled discussion and may come up for a vote soon.  ,
Despite the late start, Fry believes House Republicans can pass it with proper information.
” In my experience so far, the more] House members ] have heard about it, the more comfortable they are with it”, he said. ” It’s not a unique concept”.
Failure to defund Jack Smith
With the prosecution of two of his four indictments against him, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has come to be one of Trump’s most feared enemies. The former president has turned to his allies in the House to defund Smith’s efforts to bring charges against him to ease his legal issues.
Johnson indicated that he might be supportive of the idea in May.
” There’s a lot of different ideas. People are alarmed that the special counsel, in that capacity, has been abused in recent years”, he told reporters. How does Congress fix that problem and make sure a special counsel is not defrauding their position of authority? You know, we have oversight, of course, we also have the power of the purse”.
He stated that he was “working with Chairman]Jim Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee and Chairman]James ] Comer of our Oversight Committee on measures to stop Special Counsel Jack Smith’s abuses.”
One month later, these efforts have failed to bear any fruit. Republicans do n’t appear to have enough votes to push the measure through, with Rep. Mike Simpson ( R- ID ) dismissing the idea as” stupid”.
” I do n’t think it’s a good idea unless you can show that]the prosecutors ] acted in bad faith or fraud or something like that”, he told Politico. They are simply doing what they are supposed to do, even though I disagree with what they did.
Failure to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas
On one of the former president’s most pressing issues, immigration, Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas represents the almost opposite of Trump. The firing of one of Biden’s top officials, the one in charge of immigration no less, would have been a major boon for the former president.
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A vote was moved forward on February 6 after House Republicans announced their intention to remove Mayorkas from office in January, which humiliatingly failed after four Republicans vested in the Democrats. In a 214- 213 vote on February 13, a second vote hardly scraped, making Mayorkas the first Cabinet official to be impeached since William Belknap, who served under President Ulysses S. Grant, in 1876.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer defeated the impeachment articles in April without having them put to a vote.
