The chief of staff for Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has stepped down to pursue a “new opportunity in the private sector” in 2022, The Hill reports.
For members: Nancy Mace Is a Goner
The chief of staff for Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has stepped down to pursue a “new opportunity in the private sector” in 2022, The Hill reports.
For members: Nancy Mace Is a Goner
“The Jan. 6 select committee plans to hold ‘multiple weeks’ of public hearings in 2022 to lay out how the violent attack on the Capitol took shape — and how Donald Trump attempted to overturn the election, ” Politico reports.
“It’s the first indication of the committee’s plans for 2022 and how it intends to reveal the findings of its intensive, closed-door probe. And it’s a further signal that the panel intends to finalize its work by the spring, as Chair Bennie Thompson has previously said.”
Daily Beast: “Steve Bannon—the right-wing media personality turned adviser to Donald Trump turned right-wing media personality again—became the first person in nearly 40 years to be indicted on a charge of criminal contempt of Congress last month after he refused to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. Now, Bannon appears to be using his criminal case to go after the committee that went after him.”
“Bannon is attempting to force investigators to potentially expose who they’ve talked to and what they’ve said, peek into secret communications on the committee, and create a playbook for other resistant witnesses, according to several legal experts.”
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“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is trying to quietly extinguish various internal fires as an Islamophobia controversy consumes his GOP conference,” Politico reports.
“The California Republican has sought to handle internal strife privately in a bid to avoid alienating any of his members as he looks to both retake the majority and win the speaker’s gavel next Congress. Rather than putting fellow Republicans on blast, McCarthy has low-key lobbied individuals — and the conference as a whole — to stay on message.”
“So, this is hard because these people are doing it for the publicity. There’s a judgment that has to be made about how we contribute to their fundraising and their publicity on how obnoxious and disgusting they can be.”
— Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), quoted by CNN, speaking to the House Democratic caucus on whether to punish Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for her recent Islamophobic remarks.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has shared a chilling death threat she received after Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) portrayed her as a suicide bomber at a recent campaign event.
From the audio: “You will not live much longer… We see you Muslim and (n-word) bitch, we know what you’re up to. You’re all about taking over our country. Don’t worry, there’s plenty that will love the opportunity to take you off the face of this fucking earth. Come get it. But you fucking Muslim piece of shit. You jihadist. We know what you are. You’re a fucking traitor.”
“House GOP leadership elections are still one year away, but early jockeying has already begun behind the scenes with Republicans extremely bullish about winning back the majority in next year’s midterms,” The Hill reports.
“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried — without success — Tuesday night to end an ugly battle between two of his GOP freshmen,” Politico reports.
“The California Republican implored Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Nancy Mace (R-SC), in separate private meetings, to stop attacking one another after their back-and-forth online spat dragged on for hours earlier Tuesday.”
CNN: “Emerging from her meeting, Greene told CNN that both she and former President Donald Trump would back a primary challenge to Mace in 2022.”
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) shot back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after the Georgia representative called her “trash,” responding by using emojis to call her fellow freshman Republican “batshit crazy,” The Hill reports.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) suggested to a crowd in September that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), whom she called “black-hearted” and “evil,” was a terrorist, CNN reports.
In those same remarks, she said that she felt safe around Omar because the Democrat wasn’t wearing a backpack while they were in an elevator together.
“Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has reached an initial deal to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, providing documents and agreeing to testify before the panel,” The Hill reports.
CNN: “The move represents a critical shift in the relationship between the top Trump ally and the panel, and staving off a criminal contempt referral for now.”
Playbook: “We’re curious to hear what Trump has to say about this. The ex-president hasn’t taken kindly to close associates testifying about him in the past. Meadows has long been one of his closest allies and more than likely will refuse to answer certain questions that Trump argues are privileged. Still, could this be the beginning of a frayed Trump-Meadows relationship? “
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) blasted Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) after the South Carolina lawmaker criticized Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for an anti-muslim remark Boebert made about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), The Hill reports.
Tweeted Greene: “She is the trash in the GOP Conference. Never attacked by Democrats or RINO’s (same thing) because she is not conservative, she’s pro-abort.”
CBS News: “The select committee investigating the deadly attack on the Capitol plans to meet Wednesday to vote on whether to recommend if the full House should hold Trump ally Jeffrey Clark, in contempt of Congress. He would be the second Trump ally to be found in contempt of congress for failing to comply with a subpoena from the panel.”
“Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) says omicron is just the latest deep state plot to distract America,” New York Daily News reports.
“The former White House physician claimed the worrisome variant is a hoax that Democrats will use to impose new Covid-19 mail-in ballot rules.”
Said Jackson: “Here comes the MEV — the Midterm Election Variant! They NEED a reason to push unsolicited nationwide mail-in ballots Democrats will do anything to CHEAT during an election — but we’re not going to let them!”
“Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) clashed in what both described as a tense phone call on Monday after video surfaced of the far-right lawmaker making Islamophobic remarks about her colleague,” The Hill reports.
Said Omar: “Today, I graciously accepted a call from Rep. Lauren Boebert in the hope of receiving a direct apology for falsely claiming she met me in an elevator, suggesting I was a terrorist, and for a history of anti-Muslim hate. Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Rep. Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments. She instead doubled down on her rhetoric and I decided to end the unproductive call.”
Said Boebert: “She kept asking for a public apology. So I told Ilhan Omar that she should make a public apology to the American people for her anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-police rhetoric.”
Politico says the controversy between the two lawmakers “escalated to a full boil.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she spoke with GOP leader Kevin McCarthy after the congresswoman threatened to torpedo McCarthy’s ambition to be elected Speaker of the House.
Said Greene: “We spent time talking about solving problems not only in the conference, but for our country. I like what he has planned ahead.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tweets: “Here is real strength, when Kevin McCarthy has to call a freshman begging for permission to stay in power. What has Kevin promised?“
Playbook: “The drama surrounding Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) Islamophobic comments about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is about to heat up as lawmakers return from Thanksgiving recess this week. Sources tell us a faction of Democrats is expected to push leadership to strip Boebert of her committee assignments or censure her after she joked about Omar, who is Muslim, being safe to ride with in an elevator because she wasn’t wearing a backpack.”
“This is a messier situation for Democrats than their previous moves to punish Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in similar fashion. Unlike those two, Boebert issued a public apology and reached out to Omar’s office to try to speak with her. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy even tried to play peacemaker, calling House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer personally this weekend and asking him to help facilitate a meeting between the two women.”
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) declined New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams’ offer to become deputy mayor.
Many expect Suozzi to make a run for New York governor.
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