How Trump Bullied MAGA Rep. Into Changing Her Vote on Budget Bill
Source: The New Republic
How Trump Bullied MAGA Rep. Into Changing Her Vote on Budget Bill
Edith Olmsted
Thu, February 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM EST 2 min read
Donald Trump screamed Republican Representative Victoria Spartz into submission on his disastrous budget bill, Puck reported Thursday.
The Indiana congresswoman, one of the three initial holdouts on the reconciliation bill, claimed Wednesday she was a “hard no” on the resolution, which would force the Committee on Energy and Commerce to reduce the deficit by at least $880 billion from 2025 to 2034. That committee oversees Medicaid, sparking widespread concerns that Republicans were simply seeking a way to slash the crucial program.
When asked by CNN’s Manu Raju whether she would bend to pressure from her colleagues, Spartz replied, “You don’t know me well enough.… You should know better than that by now.
“We cannot be weak, and we have to do the right thing for the people,” she said.
But that was before Spartz took a furious phone call from the president, whose screaming could be heard by the congresswoman’s colleagues across the Republican cloakroom, ...
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