.MaddowBlog: After standing on principle, GOP senator faces rebuke in his home state.
After Donald Trump issued an emergency declaration, granting himself the powers to redirect funds in defiance of Congress’ wishes, Republicans faced a choice: stand up for constitutional principles or side with the White House out of a sense of partisan loyalty. In both the House and Senate, the vast majority of GOP lawmakers prioritized the latter over the former.
Any chance his local allies would side with Blunt, a giant in Missouri Republican politics? Evidently not. The Kansas City Star reported yesterday that the senator has been disinvited from an upcoming GOP gathering in his home state, in response to last week’s vote. Martens serves as the local party committee’s events chair. She told the senator in her email, which was obtained by The Kansas City Star, that she did not want to see him when the local party holds its Lincoln/Trump Day Dinner on April 6 in Ozark, Missouri, one of the most conservative areas in the state.
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