Republicans know from experience that voters forget what’s done in the earlier part of their terms — that they can whitewash it with PR before the election.
So their view is, get all the nasty, corrupt, harm the people stuff done right after the election.
Then, the second half of their terms they’ll spend avoiding as much of that as they can and doing everything they can to get votes for the coming election.
That’s why they’re going to pile as much as they can on now. I think it’s that simple.
That means it’s up to Democrats to figure out how to make the voters remember the bad when the next election comes.