Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, urged Senate colleagues not to cede legislative authority to President Donald Trump.

Murkowski, a moderate who has faced Trump’s wrath several times in the past, told NBC News chief Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles that lawmakers need to stand up to the chief executive.

“The executive basically blows by Congress, or rolls right over Congress, and we allow that,” Murkowski told Nobles in a video posted Tuesday morning on X. “We’re ceding our responsibility.

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