Senate GOP's Surrender: Are They Working for Democrats?

Chris Salcedo slammed the cowardice from the Senate GOP this week, bluntly accusing Senate Republican leadership of being “busy working for Democrats” instead of fighting for the voters who put them in office. That charge resonates because Washington Republicans too often invite the very betrayals they once vowed to stop — trading conservative wins for cover and headlines.

 What set off the latest eruption was the funding fight in March, when Congress teetered on the brink of a shutdown and Senate action required either 60 votes or Democratic cooperation to move a continuing resolution. The math in the upper chamber — with filibuster rules and razor-thin margins — creates the temptation for deal-making, but temptation is no excuse for surrender.

Make no mistake: the optics of Senate leaders cozying up to Schumer or folding to bipartisan-sounding compromises while leaving border security, fiscal restraint, and judicial confirmations on the table is enraging to rank-and-file conservatives. Voters didn’t elect a majority of Republicans to pass Democrat-friendly stopgaps; they elected them to fight. When party leaders celebrate “bipartisan” fixes that water down our agenda, that’s not governance — it’s capitulation.

Senators like Ted Cruz have been saying what many grassroots Americans already know: Democrats are often rudderless, but when Republicans blink, they hand the left the narrative and the leverage. That’s why the conservative base is demanding real accountability, not press releases and backroom assurances from the same leadership that keeps producing empty victories.

If Senate Republican leadership wants to keep its majority, it must stop treating compromise as a default and start treating conservative promises as law. That means refusing to rubber-stamp open-border policies, wasteful foreign slush, and omnibus giveaways for the sake of “getting something done.” The American people want action: border security, spending discipline, lower taxes, and judges who uphold the Constitution — not deals that reward the other side.

Hardworking Americans are watching. Patriots sent Republicans to Washington to stand up for the country, not to be gatekeepers for Democratic priorities. If leadership won’t fight, voters will find leaders who will — and they’ll do it at the ballot box.