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Rep Elise Stefanik speaks before President Donald Trump, right, signs the John McCain National Defense Authorization Act for the 2019 fiscal year in August 2018 at Wheeler-Sack Army Air Field, Fort Drum.
(Provided photo â Daytona Niles, Watertown Daily Times) Rep. Elise Stefanik is on the path to move up in Washington after securing key endorsements in a bid to take over as chair of the House Republican Conference, the number-three spot in House Republican leadership. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, was endorsed for the position by former President Donald Trump in a Wednesday morning statement, which came shortly after the number-two House Republican, Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., also officially endorsed her.
Top Democrats Come to Cheney’s Defense Amid GOP Spat
Top Democrats in the House came to the defense of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the GOP’s third-highest ranking member in the lower chamber who is currently in the midst of a battle involving her political future.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday told reporters: “I do commend Lynn Cheney [sic] for her courage, for her patriotism.”
“I don’t welcome” the GOP’s “participation in our caucus, and I’m sure they don’t welcome my participation in theirs,” Pelosi later added.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told The Washington Post that Cheney “is principled and she believes in the truth,” adding: “It is a shame that the party has fallen to the place where a Liz Cheney, as I said, principled, committed to the truth and a conservative Republican, is somehow not accepted as a leader in the Republican Party.”
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.
Donald Trump.
New Day Tuesday, the anchor of the network’s afternoon program,
The Lead, shredded Republican leadership for peddling the ex-president’s fictitious narrative. Citing House Minority Leader
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Minority Whip
Steve Scalise (R-LA) by name, Tapper argued that GOP leadership promoting the Big Lie shows their willingness to spread other falsehoods.
“[W]hen it comes to lies like this and the House Republican caucus, and the leaders like Mccarthy and Stev4e Scalise they’re like Doritos,” Taper said. “You can’t just do one. You keep lying, and lying, and lying. We saw last week, McCarthy spreading the lie about