President of the Republican Conference of the House Liz Cheney
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Trump, who has been hosted at his Mar-a-Lago resort, is a short distance from Orlando, where Republicans are holding their annual meeting April 25-27.
But when asked by The Hill if Trump would make an appearance, Cheney, one of ten Republicans who voted to accuse Trump of his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol uprising, replied tersively, “I didn’t invite him.” .
The retreat is sponsored by the nonprofit Congressional Institute, but Cheney and other members of the GOP leadership team set the agenda. Trump had addressed previous withdrawals from the House GOP, including in Baltimore and the West Virginia Greenbrier complex, when he served as president.
But the Republican Party has been at war with itself after the Capitol attack and in the post-Trump era. Cheney and a small faction of Republicans urge the party to reject Trump and move on, while most Republican lawmakers embrace the former president, who remains a popular figure with the Conservative base and flirts with a rematch against President Biden
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Some of Trump’s most dedicated loyalists in Congress, representatives. Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Paul Anthony GosarGOP fights to curb nativism Former Republican lawmaker called racism of “First American caucus” in a pot “Republicans care about divisive candidates MORE (R-Ariz.), Had been discussing the release of a pro-Trump “America First Caucus.” A draft policy platform for the caucus, reportedly written by staff, called for defending America’s “unique Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and infrastructure projects that reflect “European architecture.”
The proposed committee has been strongly condemned by Republicans from across the political spectrum, including the House minority leader Kevin McCarthy
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Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Cheney delved into his first on-camera comments about the America First Caucus.
“Any form of nativism or racism or anti-Semitism: these things are bad,” Cheney told the Capitol. “And that has to be very clear, and we have to be willing, as Americans, to say that.”