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Kevin McCarthy says Marjorie Taylor Greene is ‘the canary in the coal mine’ for Republicans
Former House of Representatives speaker Kevin McCarthy he said Majorie Taylor GreeneGiven the departure of many Republicans in the House of Representatives, the GOP’s sudden resignation portends bigger problems for the GOP next year.
“It’s almost like the canary in the coal mine,” McCarthy told Fox News on Tuesday.
“And that’s something that’s happening within Congress, they better wake up because they’re going to have a lot of people retiring and they need to focus.”
The GOP’s majority in the House is still slim and has two votes to spare despite Greene’s departure, but 22 House Republicans have already said they will either retire or forego re-election next year. This is an above average figure, analysts say.
Greene, the three-term representative from Georgia, resigned last Friday after weeks of escalating public row with the president Donald Trumpon a variety of issues, including the release of the Epstein files.
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Trump criticized NY Times’ news about his health
Trump’s first social media message of the day has just been released, criticizing the New York Times for its leading reporting on his age-related difficulties in office.
The report details signs of the 79-year-old president’s increasing fatigue and shortening days in office.
Trump called it a “hit piece” from a “cheap rag” and said it was “intentionally negative” about him. Real Social post including a personal attack on the report’s author. But I will highlight his response to health claims:
“[They] Maybe it did something very important to me that I was losing my Energy, even though the facts show the opposite.
“There will come a day when I’m low on energy, this can happen to anyone, but I HAVE GOT AN EXCELLENT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND A COMPREHENSIVE COGNITIVE TEST (“This was a pass”) DONE IN A QUICK TIME, definitely not now!”
Trump defends report that Witkoff coached Putin aide
The Kremlin confirmed this morning that Witkoff will come to Moscow again next week; This was expected given the reported progress on the peace agreement reached between Ukrainian and US negotiators earlier this week.
But there is a report on this, which emerged last month when a recording of Witkoff advising Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov on how to present Trump with the peace plan was leaked.
At the time, Trump seemed to have run out of patience with Putin.
“Reiterate your congratulations to the president [Trump] Witkoff is quoted as saying in the Bloomberg report: “Because of this accomplishment… you respect that he is a man of peace, and you’re really glad to see that happen.”
After this, a Trump-Putin meeting took place just before Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy came to the White House for the meeting. And since then, the United States has unveiled its peace plan, which appears to make even greater concessions to the Russian side and set off furious rounds of negotiations.
When asked by reporters last night about the leaked recording, Trump said he had not heard of it but defended Witkoff, saying the reported treatment of the Russians was unfair. “standard negotiation procedure”.
“He needs to sell this to Ukraine. He needs to sell Ukraine to Russia.” he said. “That’s what a dealmaker does.”
The agreement in its current form appears to have been revised in line with the demands of Ukraine and Europe following the US-Ukraine talks held in Geneva last weekend.
Zelenskyy said the revised version could be “workable” but there were still several important issues unresolved. Zelenskyy hopes to meet with Trump in the coming days.
Kevin McCarthy says Marjorie Taylor Greene is ‘the canary in the coal mine’ for Republicans
Former House of Representatives speaker Kevin McCarthy he said Majorie Taylor GreeneGiven the departure of many Republicans in the House of Representatives, the GOP’s sudden resignation portends bigger problems for the GOP next year.
“It’s almost like the canary in the coal mine,” McCarthy told Fox News on Tuesday.
“And that’s something that’s happening within Congress, they better wake up because they’re going to have a lot of people retiring and they need to focus.”
The GOP’s majority in the House is still slim and has two votes to spare despite Greene’s departure, but 22 House Republicans have already said they will either retire or forego re-election next year. This is an above average figure, analysts say.
Greene, the three-term representative from Georgia, resigned last Friday after weeks of escalating public row with the president Donald Trumpon a variety of issues, including the release of the Epstein files.
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Hello and welcome to today’s US Politics blog. I’m Frances Mao, and I’ll be covering the next few hours for you as lawmakers begin to head out for Thanksgiving weekend.
The fallout from President Trump’s attack on six Democrats who released a video urging US soldiers to defy “illegal orders” continues after it was reported that first the Pentagon and then the FBI had launched an investigation into the matter.
The two investigations mark an extraordinary escalation in Trump’s use of federal agencies to go after political opponents and members of Congress. One Democrat who said he was questioned by the FBI called it a “scare tactic.”
Meanwhile, GOP veterans continue to weigh in on the departure of MAGA loyalist-turned-rebel Marjorie Taylor Greene; He warns that the party could face a large number of retirements next year, leaving it vulnerable ahead of midterm elections.
And Russian officials have confirmed that Steve Witkoff will return to Moscow next week to negotiate a peace deal on the Ukrainian war, after some progress was seen in negotiations with Ukrainian parties this week.
