"It came to a boiling point a week and a half ago at our retreat [in Florida] when she's doing a press conference and she's still talking about January 6 and Donald Trump when we're all talking about unifying to defeat Pelosi's socialist agenda and win the House back," said one Republican. "At that point it became clear she's just not interested in working with the rest of us on a shared goal." Rank-and-file members can do whatever they want, Republicans say, but members of the leadership should at least publicly be on the same page.
"That's where the problem lies -- not with her vote," added a senior GOP aide. "None of the other members who took that vote [to impeach Trump] have been stripped of committees or their status on the whip team." For example, one of those who voted to impeach, Representative John Katko, remains the ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee. The ten Republicans who voted to impeach may have angered some constituents at home, but they have not suffered retribution at the hands of their party's leadership in Washington.
Republicans say they have no idea what Cheney's game is.
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