Republican says Stefanik not conservative enough to be GOP leader
Roy, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, pointed to Stefanik's past votes against the 2017 tax cut law and in support of Democratic bills to end former President Trump Installing someone like Stefanik in GOP leadership, Roy argued, would undermine Republicans' messaging against such policies heading into the 2022 midterm elections. ADVERTISEMENT "We must avoid putting in charge Republicans who campaign as Republicans but then vote for and advance the Democrats’ agenda once sworn in – that is, that we do not make the same mistakes we did in 2017," Roy wrote in a memo to his ...