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Nov 15 5 tweets 3 min read
SCOOP: @RepMTG's worst fears could soon be coming true.

DON BACON (R-Neb.) tells @NBCNews he's willing to work with DEMS to elect a moderate Speaker if 218 Republicans can't agree on a candidate. @RepDonBacon

w/@KyleAlexStewart @jonallendc
nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
.@RepDonBacon (R-Neb.) on why he's willing to work with Dems to elect a Speaker if GOP can't agree on a speaker:

"I do want the country to work and we need to govern. We can't sit neutral; we can't have total gridlock for two year" nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Pressed again that he would team up with Dems, Bacon replied: "Yes, but that's assuming we can't get to 218 beforehand."

However, he added that a Speaker @Liz_Cheney "will never happen."

"On the GOP side, there will be zero stomach for"
Cheney, Bacon said.
BIGGS makes it official on Newsmax: He will take on McCarthy for Speaker of the House
On Bannon's "War Room," Gaetz mocks MTG for trusting McCarthy:

“Whatever Kevin has promised Marjorie Taylor Greene, I guarantee you this: At the first opportunity, he will zap her faster than you can say Jewish space laser,” Gaetz said.

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Nov 14
Former Freedom Caucus chair @RepAndyBiggsAZ to reporters just now … “Nobody has 218 (votes for speaker). And somebody is going to run tomorrow” vs McCarthy

Won’t confirm it will be him though.
Asked @mattgaetz (R-FL) if he backs @RepAndyBiggsAZ for Speaker:

“I’ll support Andy Biggs for anything” he says
.@MarkMeadows among those testifying before @RepAndyBiggsAZ hearing on House rules and process changes for new Congress
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Oct 13
DAY 9 of the Jan. 6 hearings about to get underway.

Follow along on our @NBCNews live blog here for all the updates: nbcnews.com/politics/live-… Image
Chair @BennieGThompson makes point that those who testified and gave evidence to J6 were not Dems or Trump foes.

They were Trump aides, GOP state officials, the RNC chair, Trump family members and WH officials.

"This investigation is not about politics."
Re: Trump's premature declaration of victory, Greg Jacob testified that Pence chief Marc Short "was trying to figure out a way of avoiding the Vice President sort of being thrust into a position of needing to opine on that"
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Oct 12
“Hell of a week. Can we try a little harder here? Like really, Mick?” Rep. Ann Wagner sneered at Trump’s chief after his disastrous press briefing on Ukraine/G7 Doral summit.

NEW DETAILS here from ⁦@rachaelmbade⁩ & @karoun⁩’s book “Unchecked.” nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
At Camp David that weekend, moderate Republicans "charged the president’s chief of staff like a pack of wolves."

“Your performance was kind of abysmal, one said. “A stupid idea” said another.

“This is an unacceptable, unforced error. We won’t defend it,” Wagner
“The backlash, Mulvaney realized, was going to jeopardize the tenuous GOP coalition that they needed to keep intact in order to defend Trump from the impeachment inquiry,” @rachaelmbade & @karoun write in “Unchecked.” Image
Read 5 tweets
Jun 28
The SIXTH JAN. 6 hearing about to get underway here in Cannon House Building, featuring live testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson.

Follow along @NBCNews, our live blog at NBCNews.com or watch live here on News NOW nbcnews.com/now
For all of today's developments on the Hutchinson hearing, follow NBC News's Live Blog here nbcnews.com/politics/live-…
.@Liz_Cheney says Hutchinson is a familiar face on Capitol Hill:

She worked for GOP Whip @SteveScalise and served in Trump’s WH leg affairs office and under Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Image
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Jun 27
BREAKING: JAN. 6 panel says it will hold last-minute hearing at 1 p.m. TUESDAY after saying next round of hearings would not take place until after July Fourth. Image
STORY: Jan. 6 panel adds last-minute hearing Tuesday afternoon

Committee members had said previously that the next public hearings would be after the July Fourth break.

No witnesses listed yet. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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May 6
'WE SHOULD NOT DEFUND': In new letter to ⁦@SpeakerPelosi⁩ obtained by @NBCNews, nearly 20 House Democrats — many vulnerable — call for a vote on legislation to boost police funding nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
“Cutting to the bone only weakens any profession … and fuels a race to the bottom. That’s especially true in law enforcement,” they wrote.

“To make our communities safer, build a future with less crime, and save lives, we should not defund — instead, we must invest to protect”
The letter is the latest sign that Democrats, fighting to preserve their fragile majority this fall, are concerned about rising crime and the “defund the police” messaging from progressives that contributed to the party’s loss of more than a dozen House seats in 2020
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