He just found out that he is a Puppet who needs to do what the Puppet Master says or the $$$ goes away.
The hogg troupe has gotten used to the liberal $$$ that fly them, bus them, feed them, house them on all these multi state junkets and DC appearances. They will learn in the long run that it is 'free' to them in the short term. They will find a bill 'due and payable' along with the attitude that politics is a spectacle that does demand you play their way for their pay.
That was my first though, and likely what he has belatedly discovered. He is a mere court jester dancing for his paymasters.