Cheney’s Grip on GOP Job Weakens as Trump Backs Replacement Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Daniel Flatley and Derek Wallbank
(Bloomberg) Representative Liz Cheney’s grip on her No. 3 House Republican job all but vanished as former President Donald Trump endorsed replacing her with New York Representative Elise Stefanik, who also has the backing of the chamber’s second-ranking GOP leader.
The former president’s intervention shows how he is determined to keep his hold on the party heading into the 2022 election and beyond, and how willing the GOP leadership is to give him that control.
Cheney has been a vocal and persistent critic of Trump and his unfounded claims of election fraud, which has left her increasingly isolated in the party. In his statement, Trump said Cheney “has no business in Republican Party Leadership.”
As House Republican leaders actively try to oust a member of their own leadership team – No. 3 Rep. Liz Cheney – the congresswoman isn’t fighting the move.
Several high-profile Republican lawmakers on Wednesday suggested they would support antitrust reforms in the wake of Facebook's Independent Oversight Board upholding former President Trump's ban from the platform.House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (La.) said in a statement that if "Big Tech believes they have the power to silence a president of the United States, then we need to take a serious look at antitrust laws to limit their.
Steve Scalise has a reminder.
“There’s definitely a sugar high that comes with this idea of everything being free, but innately Americans know there is no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody’s got to pay for it and usually, it’s everybody in the middle class,” the Louisiana lawmaker told Fox Business Network.
“The lower-income people are the ones who end up paying the bill for these kind of massive spending programs. That’s how history has borne out,” Mr. Scalise predicted, advising that the “very far-left element of the Democrat Party” are the ones controlling Mr. Biden’s agenda.