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N.J. gym owner at odds with Gov. Murphy to speak at nation’s top conservative activist conference
Updated Feb 27, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
Police hand Atilis Gym owners Frank Trumbetti, middle, and Ian Smith, left, a summons after they opened the doors for business despite the state s order that all such facilities remain closed to slow the spread of the coronavirus on May 18, 2020. Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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The co-owner of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, who defied Gov. Phil Murphy’s orders to shut down to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, is joining former President Donald Trump, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at this weekend’s annual gathering of conservative activists.
Trump Will ‘Be Helpful’ to All Senate Republican Incumbents: Lindsey Graham
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said former President Donald Trump will “be helpful” to all GOP Senate incumbents, although House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters that the former commander-in-chief hasn’t pledged to refrain from going after House Republican incumbents.
“The president is going to be helpful to all Republican incumbents on the Senate. We’ve got a great slate of incumbents,” Graham told Fox News on Friday.
Trump will be “working with our incumbents” and is working on helping Republicans in their attempts to unseat Democrats in Arizona, Georgia, and New Hampshire, according to Graham.
25 Feb 2021
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) released a memo Thursday to Republican ranking members detailing how the GOP can use House procedural motions to force Democrats to take tough votes and expose their leftist agenda.
McCarthy wrote that because Democrats only have a five-member majority in the House, the strong Republican minority can force the slim Democrat majority to take tough votes that have resulted in Democrats losing procedural motions such as blocking the previous question.
The procedural motion McCarthy proposed Friday, known as the Motion to Recommit (MTR), if successfully passed, would move the legislation on the House floor back to the bill’s committee of origin. This would significantly delay or block the bill from passing through the House, as lawmakers would have to amend it to contain the improvements sought by the majority contained in the MTR instructions.