For Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Rough Education in MAGA Politics
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene.html
For Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Rough Education in MAGA Politics
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene.html
"The resolution from the mothers allows #proxyvoting for lawmakers who have given birth or #pregnant lawmakers who are unable to travel safely or have a serious medical condition. ...
Luna, who is among the House’s more conservative lawmakers, made headlines for her steadfast support of #Trump. But she resigned this week from the #archconservative #HouseFreedomCaucus, saying she could no longer be part of the group ..."
Two new moms, Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida and Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen of Colorado, want to force a vote on their proposal for proxy voting, which a majority of House colleagues support.
The #Republicans that showed up to the #TrumpTrial today in Manhattan were *lawmakers* who are all about disrupting legislative business & have no issue w/embarrassing their own party on the #House floor. It included many #HouseFreedomCaucus members who have frozen the chamber for days on end, most recently voting down their party’s own rules as an act of *protest*.
Idiots.
#MAGA #law #Trump #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #RepublicanDysfunction #VoteBlue #governance
[ABC News]: Matt Gaetz subpoenaed in defamation suit by woman he allegedly had sex with as minor
The Florida congressman could be asked under oath about the allegations involving an underage woman. March 14, 2024
#mattgaetz #florida #FL01 #FL1 #JoelGreenberg #ethics #ethicscommittee #freedomcaucus #housefreedomcaucus #republicans #gop #houserepublicans
#MitchMcConnell’s retirement from #Senate leadership will also mark the step back of an orderly counterpart to the tumultuous approach of #Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, and the hardline #HouseFreedomCaucus ahead of the Nov #election for president, the full #House of Representatives & a third of the Senate.
#Republicans #MAGA #Chaos #Trolls #GOP #law
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mcconnell-step-down-senate-republican-leader-november-ap-2024-02-28/
#Republicans #fear they will be targets in #Trump’s ‘#retribution’ campaign
TFG is already attacking those who have endorsed his #GOP opponents or have crossed him in other ways
Trump…has threatened to have #donors to his #Republican opponent #NikkiHaley “permanently barred” from his orbit. A top adviser has vowed to destroy the career of Rep #BobGood (R-VA), #HouseFreedomCaucus chairman, after he endorsed … #DeSantis.
#OnTyranny #Tyrant #democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/06/trump-revenge-republicans/
Congress votes keep government running; Salazar votes with Dems :
To almost lose the majority of his conference underscores the challenges facing the new speaker and signals the difficulty he will have in striking a deal that will not alienate many of his GOP colleagues.
#Budget #CarlosGimenez #Congress #featured #HouseFreedomCaucus #JoeBiden #MariaSalazar #MarioDiazBalart #MIkeJohnson
https://kbindependent.org/2024/01/19/congress-votes-keep-government-running-salazar-votes-with-dems/
Without additional funding now, the U.S. will have to delay or curtail air defense weapons, ammunition, drones and demolition and breaching equipment that are “critical and urgent now as Russia prepares to conduct a winter offensive.”
President Biden said Sunday that while the aid will keep flowing for now, time is running out.