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Meet the 38 Republicans who defied Trump on the spending and debt deal.
The group of 38 House Republicans who refused to vote for the spending and debt deal demanded by President-elect Donald J. Trump is largely made up of the most hard-right members — those limited-government fiscal hawks who have so defined themselves as hard-core conservatives in their districts that they believe they are impervious to a primary threat.
There was Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, known on Capitol Hill as Mr. No, who has never bent to Mr. Trump and so far never suffered politically for it. In 2020, when he tried to derail the passage of a coronavirus emergency relief bill, Mr. Trump called him a “third rate Grandstander” and said voters needed to “throw Massie out of Republican Party!”
Meet the 38 Republicans who defied Trump on the spending and debt deal.
The rebels are largely the most conservative lawmakers who are passionate about slashing spending and debt. They hail from deep-red districts where a primary challenge is less of a danger.
These folks essentially make up the clowns who call themselves the Freedom Caucus. Putting the on the fringe of the far right political spectrum. Like.....out there. No doubt they were backers of taking out $200M for kid's cancer research that was part of the bill that failed to pass yesterday. Or as trumples would call it, Democrat pork.
Does Kash go after these scoundrels or will it be left up to President Musk? The guy who has been making threats to primary anyone who doesn't do the future Golfer-in-Chief's bidding.
