Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham — not to mention an accompanying chorus of Democrats — are griping and groaning about the new president’s Cabinet picks and priorities, but remain powerless to stop his rapid success in ticking off agenda items and delivering win after win for the American people.

While Trump has been busy fulfilling campaign promises, it seems McCain has been busy standing up for the interests of the military industrial complex, Wall Street, and the Democratic Party.

McCain has also lashed out against Trump’s scrapping of the TPP.

On Tuesday, McCain grilled Trump OMB pick, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, over the latter’s support for defense cuts and came shockingly close to insinuating that Mulvaney is some kind of traitor. “Boy, I’ll tell ya, I would remember if I voted to cut our defenses the way you did, Congressman. Maybe you don’t take it with the seriousness that it deserves,” McCain said.

“I’m not interested in playing semantic games with you,” McCain continued. “I’m interested in what our military needs and what it receives. It’s clear from your record that you’ve been an impediment to that for years.”

The same day, McCain put out a white paper calling for an additional $430 billion in defense spending over the next five years — apparently McCain is unaware of the country’s deficit and thinks a Bush was inaugurated last week.

McCain has also lashed out against Trump’s scrapping of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “This decision will forfeit the opportunity to promote American exports, reduce trade barriers, open new markets, and protect American invention and innovation.”

But of course, as Trump’s team has noted repeatedly, multilateral free trade agreements are not the only means to achieve those ends. Scrapping the TPP won’t forfeit the opportunity to promote American exports — it will forfeit the opportunity for globalists on Wall Street to make a massive amount of money quickly.

McCain, along with Graham, also appeared to criticize Trump’s comments on voter fraud. “I obviously have seen no evidence of illegal voting,” McCain told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, while Graham demanded the president provide evidence of his claims.

“I wasn’t there, but if the president of the United States is claiming that 3.5 million people voted illegally, that shakes confidence in our democracy — he needs to disclose why he believes that,” Graham said on Tuesday.

But while two senators who have made a career of promising conservative victories and delivering practically none, the president who everyone agrees isn’t an ideological conservative has delivered more conservative victories in less than week than McCain, Graham, McConnell, and company delivered in eight years.

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Trump has signed executive orders halting the TPP — giving hope to thousands of American workers; resuming construction of the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines; and initiating construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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He has signed orders increasing the number of border patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and reinstated the Mexico City policy banning federal funds for foreign organizations that promote abortion. Trump has also issued a hiring freeze for federal employees and ordered federal agencies to ease the “regulatory burdens” of Obamacare.

If Graham and McCain continue to whine about Trump doing things that a significant number of Republican voters support, they will only hasten their relegation to political irrelevancy.