× By Jim Saksa, CQ-Roll Call
Published: May 6, 2021, 5:00pm
Share: In this Nov. 20, 2019 file photo, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., listens during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
WASHINGTON Elise Stefanik knows how to pick her battles.
At a small town-hall meeting in 2018, she called for President Donald Trump’s EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, to resign.
The demands burnished the New York Republican’s brand as an independent thinker in her politically heterodox upstate district, which voted for Trump even though environment and climate change matter a lot to the ski resorts and lakeside retreats that dot the Adirondacks.
Send US President Joe Biden said it appears that the Republican Party is going through a mini-revolution as a rift between members loyal to his predecessor President Donald Trump and those like Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney who are critical of him has grown to a boiling point.
Liz Cheney. Image Courtesy: Reuters
Washington: It seems as though the Republican Party is trying to identify what it stands for. And they re in the midst of significant sort of mini-revolution going on in the Republican Party, Biden told reporters at the White House on Wednesday after addressing his administration s implementation of the American Rescue Plan .Â
FOX News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram joins Special Report with the details
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dodged questions Wednesday regarding calls from top Congressional Republicans to replace Rep. Liz Cheney as House GOP conference chair amid her public feud with former President Donald Trump.
McConnell was asked to comment on whether he planned to support Cheney in a bid to keep her leadership position. Rather than responding to the question, McConnell noted that 100% of [his] focus is on stopping the Biden administration’s policy agenda. I think the best way to look at what this new administration is – the president may have won the nomination, but Bernie Sanders won the argument about what the new administration should be like, McConnell said. We’re confronted with severe challenges from a new administration and a narrow majority of Democrats in the House and a 50-50 Senate to turn America into a socialist country, and that’s 100% of my fo
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As Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the chair of the House Republican Conference, keeps finding herself in the news, it appears inevitable that the vote to oust her from this leadership role is fast approaching. She has turned out to be her own worst enemy on this as she lashes out against the GOP, especially former President Donald Trump.
Coverage to do with Rep. Cheney s political future, or lack thereof, is full of members, named and unnamed, sharing that she will likely lose her leadership title. Perhaps the most thoughtful perspective, a rather simple one, is that what happens to Liz Cheney is up to Liz Cheney.
Special Report panel discuss Cheney s precarious role as GOP Conference chair
Twitter temporarily suspended the account of communications director for GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik late Wednesday, reinstating it Thursday morning.
Karoline Leavitt, Stefanik s communications director, in an interview with Fox News Tuesday morning, said she was given no explanation from Twitter after she was locked out of her account Wednesday night.
A Twitter spokesperson told Fox News that the account was suspended in error. This has been reversed, and the account has been reinstated, the spokesperson said. The account s followers will take 24-48 hours to fully restore. Karoline Leavitt, communications director for Rep. Elise Stefanik, was suspended from Twitter Wednesday night.