As they try to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda, congressional Republicans face the same political risk as a generation ago: that tying together tax cuts and spending cuts will backfire.

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior editor Joe Sobczyk looks at the reaction among Republicans in Congress to the president’s moves.

They aren’t fighting Trump even when he tramples on their prerogatives and past ideals, cementing the party’s more autocratic turn.

Trump is testing congressional power and Republican fealty on three major fronts this week as he steers the country into a backyard trade war.