Now they owe Trump. He gets his tax cuts and healthcare reform, maybe even stimulus.
If they can overrule the President as Commander in Chief of the armed forces, then they can also overrule him on taxes and health care.
From my many years of studying this, I don’t think the world works on money alone.
It also works on ‘favors’. We do this for you and you owe us. Or conversely, if you do this for us we owe you one in the future. That’s obviously an oversimplification, but you get my drift.