Your statement implies that Congress is a unified body. They have to have a majority for any such action as you mention.
The leadership has to push to get a majority for such things.
Essentially it is the House leadership and a majority who are refusing to do these things.
Why?
Because they are terrified of the Progressive Media, and have been conditioned to be terrified of them for decades.
President Trump is showing Republicans how to be independent of the Progressive Media.
It is actually the Leadership of BOTH parties, they have always been in cahoots to expand their power over the subjects, and have never blinked when it came to screwing the citizens to further their Ruling Class agenda.