Cheney shames colleagues who will purge her for disloyalty to Trump
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) gives remarks from the House floor one day before House Republicans are expected to vote to remove her from leadership.
Posted: May 12, 2021 12:30 AM
Updated: May 12, 2021 12:30 AM
Posted By: Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
In a short, powerful speech late Tuesday, the lawmaker from Wyoming shamed colleagues who will vote on Wednesday to strip her of her No. 3 House GOP leadership post, showing the guts to speak truth to the ex-President s malevolent power that most Republicans lack.
History is likely to remember her remarks far longer than the tortured explanations of Republican power brokers like Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California as to why she must be purged after pointing out Trump s lies and dangerous authoritarianism.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has set a vote today to remove Congresswoman Liz Cheney from her leadership post and make New York’s Elise Stefanik
As Republicans oust a top GOP leader for criticizing Trump, Biden seizes the moment to host a series of meetings at the White House for members of both parties on upcoming bills.
Update: The GOP removed Cheney from her leadership position via a voice vote on Wednesday morning. CASPER, Wyo Wyoming’s lone Representative in the U.S.
May 12, 2021 11:06 a.m.
Weeks of drama over the GOP backlash that Rep. Liz Cheney (R) was receiving for refusing to endorse former President Trump’s lies about the election came to a head in a brief, private House Republican conference meeting Wednesday during which she was removed from GOP leadership.
Within 15 minutes of when the meeting started, Cheney was voted out of her position as Republican Conference Chair, the third-ranking role.
The ouster was performed via a voice vote, and a request that it be followed up with a recorded vote was not accepted, members told reporters after the meeting.