A bit of breaking news to start the new year: Capitol Hill is just shocked, shocked(!) to discover a new member of Congress unwilling to blindly endorse everything the president does.
This revelation comes courtesy of incoming Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who, one day before taking the oath of office, declined to pledge allegiance to President Trump. After condemning the leader of his party for failing to rise “to the mantle of the office,” the Utah Republican promised in a Washington Post op-ed to be clear-eyed.
“I will act as I would with any president, in or out of my party: I will support policies that I believe are in the best interest of the country and my state, and oppose those that are not,” Romney wrote. “I do not intend to comment on every tweet or fault. But I will speak out against significant statements or actions that are divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions.”
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