Trump’s wake-up call: Republicans are willing to defy him | 38 House Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill that the president-elect publicly threw his weight behind

Not that they won't largely follow him, but they are not in lockstep clearly and he needs everyone to agree. He's going to be working with a 3 seat majority in the house with it being temporarily a one seat majority for a couple of months based on the people they are planning to pull

If he can lose 38 here after he publicly backed a bill, he can lose 3 on other bills

When they have even fewer seats. They actually lost a house seat this last election. They'll have just three seat majority - and a one seat majority for some of it too because they plan to pull people from the house

Trump also threatened to primary anyone who voted for a bill without raising the debt ceiling. 170 republicans voted for a funding bill without a debt ceiling increase. He's managed to weaken his future threats because he doesn't seem likely to primary that many

On the senate side, he's already had to pull Gatez because they didn't have the senate votes for it. They're not in lockstep about everything

Don't get me wrong, they'll probably still get plenty of terrible stuff through, but they are not all in agreement about everything and there are still plenty of winnable fights here. They had larger house majorities after 2016