Republicans aim to sow outrage, Trump-style, with an eye on 2022 midterms

Republicans embrace the culture war battles Trump waged, as a strategy for winning back control of the House and Senate

The debate was ostensibly over a stop-gap spending bill that would avert a government shutdown. But Chip Roy, a Republican congressman from Texas, seized the opportunity to accuse Democrats of supporting unconstitutional" vaccine mandates, critical race theory, woke gender ideology" and open borders. A vote to fund the federal government, he warned, was a vote to allow tyranny over the American citizen".

The speech infuriated Congressman Tim Ryan, a Democrat from Ohio.