“Senate Republican leaders are hoping that President Trump will intervene to quell a conservative rebellion in the upper chamber against a package of spending bills that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is trying to advance before Christmas,” NewsNation reports.“Conservative Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Rick Scott (R-FL) have brought a package of five appropriations bills — the so-called mini-bus — to a standstill because they object to the dozens of earmarks in the bill, a controversial practice that has divided Republicans for years.”