Analysis: Early call for retribution against 13 Republicans who voted for President Biden's infrastructure bill shows the GOP remains divided over his predecessor.
At the exact moment that Democrats unified, the Republican fracture over fealty to former President Donald Trump revealed itself anew.— Republicans in name only — after last week's House vote, saying they should be"ashamed of themselves" for supporting"Democrat longevity." And one of his chief allies is calling for vengeance.
These potential sanctions differ in degree, but share a purpose: to intimidate Republicans from stepping off the Trump-drawn party line. It also shines an unhelpfully bright light on divisions within the party at a time when Republican leaders want to present a unified front against Biden's agenda and cast Democrats as disorderly.
The calculus on committee assignments is a different equation from the one Republicans considered earlier this year when they, from the No. 3 post in GOP leadership over her vote to impeach Trump, her support for the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and her general defiance of Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
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