PF1 Monday Mini: GOP Infighting Doesn't Bode Well for Midterms

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🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Senate and House Republicans are at war over DHS funding leaving the government partially shutdown as they take a two week break. Meanwhile, there are other signs of growing conservative fractures. Miranda takes a look at the infighting and is hopeful that, despite it, voters will realize Democrat ideas are far worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Podforce One. This feature is a little more
0:11.0	topical and relevant to my job as a columnist for The New York Post. Today's topic is about
0:16.7	Republican infighting, which does not bode well for the midterms. Lucky for them, their opponents have insanely unpopular policies. There is nothing more infuriating to a frustrated air traveller, delayed for hours by the Democrat shutdown, than to see senators strolling smugly by with VIP escorts.
0:41.2	The worst offender last week was Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who high-tailed it out of
0:47.1	D.C. Friday morning, hours after stitching up a duplicitous 2am deal to end the shutdown by caving into Democrat demands to defund ICE
0:57.2	and border enforcement, at least for the time being. Elements of DHS were funded in the one big
1:03.5	beautiful bill last year, but Thune's deal freezes out immigration enforcement and border
1:08.7	security functions that are all important as we go to war
1:12.5	against the world's largest sponsor of Islamic terrorism. He knew this would be unacceptable
1:18.5	to the Republican base. In one fell swoop, Thune ceded the moral high ground to Democrats
1:24.8	who now can blame Republican intransigence for their shutdowns.
1:29.5	Breezing past the queues at Reagan National Airport with a grin for the cameras Friday,
1:34.8	the glib mulbra man lookalike couldn't have been more pleased with himself.
1:39.7	He controls the Senate and it was his amendment to the DHS funding bill that cut immigration
1:45.5	enforcement funding in the dead of night while most of his conference was asleep.
1:50.4	I don't know what the House will do, he claimed, before jetting home to South Dakota for two
1:55.5	weeks.
1:56.3	It didn't take long to find out.
1:58.6	House Speaker Mike Johnson soon held a furious press conference denouncing
2:03.6	Thune's deal with the devil. This gambit that was done last night is a joke, he said.
2:08.8	I'm quite convinced that it can't be that every Senate Republican read the language of this
2:13.8	bill. House Republicans will have no part in reopening the border and stopping illegal
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