GOP Rep. Ken Buck plans to challenge his party’s direction under Trump as he leaves the House
Associated PressWASHINGTON — Rep. Ken Buck has had enough. “MAGA” is short for the 2016 Trump campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Buck is hardly the first GOP lawmaker to step away from Capitol Hill in frustration in recent years. “I think he’s an important voice, and I’ll certainly miss him.” Buck has publicly feuded with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a high-profile Trump ally who calls Buck a “CNN wannabe.” Buck has criticized how Greene and other Republicans have become public advocates for people charged in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. “I’ve always found him to be incredibly straightforward, intellectually curious, willing to disagree without being disagreeable,” said Rep. Joe Neguse, a Colorado Democrat who represents a district adjacent to Buck’s. The next day, Buck testified about a legal effort in Colorado to ban Trump from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrection clause.” True to form, Buck’s stance defied easy categorization.
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