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'That may have backfired': Ex-GOP staffer says Mike Johnson's plan came back to bite him

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson tried to flex his political muscle, but instead got hit in the face, according to a former Republican staffer. Brendan Buck, a former key adviser to ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan, appeared on MSNBC Sunday.Buck, who was counselor to Ryan and press secretary to former speaker John A. Boehner, has previously defended Donald Trump against allegations …

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1 day, 23 hours ago

'Set themselves up for failure': Republicans said to be 'getting in the way' of their plan

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Republican lawmakers have set themselves up for failure in the next year, according to a former Republican staffer. Brendan Buck, a former key adviser to ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan, appeared on MSNBC Saturday.Buck, who was counselor to Ryan and press secretary to former speaker John A. Boehner, has previously defended the president elect against allegations of parallels to Nazi leaders. …

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1 month, 1 week ago

'Don't have the discipline': Ex-GOP staffer scoffs at pricy Trump deportation plan

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A powerful conservative communications strategist doesn't believe Republicans will be able to come up with the cash for President-elect Donald Trump's massive deportation plans, he said Wednesday. Brendan Buck, onetime press secretary to former House Speaker John Boehner, appeared on MSNBC Wednesday to discuss Trump's potential to streamline campaign promises that will come with hefty price tags. Donald Trump wants …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

'A lot of friction': GOP aide predicts big fights between Trump and Republican lawmakers

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Former congressional adviser Brendan Buck, who served two Republican Speakers of the House, said that despite being in power in the House, Senate and White House, it doesn't mean Donald Trump will have the freedom to accomplish whatever he wants. "There's going to be a lot of friction, a House majority of two or three seats, and they're probably going …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Boebert will likely fill the House seat vacated by congressman who criticized the GOP’s extremes

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Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. DENVER — Former Republican U.S. Rep. Ken Buck resigned from Congress frustrated by a flank of the GOP’s unwavering devotion to former President Donald Trump. Boebert, who has built a name as a headline-grabbing devotee of Trump, won in Tuesday night’s Republican primary election in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. While …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Lauren Boebert out of political options if she doesn't crush imminent primary: analyst

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Rep. Lauren Boebert is expected to coast to an easy Republican primary win Tuesday after changing congressional districts to avoid a serious Democratic threat to her old seat. The Colorado Republican changed from the 3rd congressional district, where she faced well-funded Democrat Adam Frisch after narrowly beating him the previous election, to the deep-red 4th district, where Tea Party Rep. …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Trump's trial will 'turn off' Christian voters regardless of verdict: ex-GOP lawmaker

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Guilty or innocent — the damage done to the Don when he appears for the first time as a defendant in a Lower Manhattan criminal court on Monday will purportedly hurt his standing with a key part of his MAGA base: the evangelicals. Former Colorado congressman Ken Buck made clear that former President Donald Trump could be badly bruised once …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Republican panel’s selection to be Rep. Buck’s likely replacement is a saving grace for Boebert

Associated Press

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. DENVER — A Colorado Republican panel made a surprising decision Thursday night, choosing a former mayor, Greg Lopez, to be U.S. Rep. Ken Buck’s likely replacement until the November general election, a saving grace for Rep. Lauren Boebert’s bid for another term in Congress. That tension was palpable throughout the …

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9 months, 1 week ago

'He got bit by the Liz Cheney bug': Boebert disses retiring Ken Buck in his own district

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Rep. Lauren Boebert talked smack about a Trump-skeptic conservative from the Colorado Republican delegation at a recent gathering with voters in his own district. According to the Colorado Sun, when a voter asked the far-right congresswoman, "What happened" to Rep. Ken Buck?" Boebert replied that "he got bit by the Liz Cheney bug." Boebert, who barely won re-election to her …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Republican Rep. Ken Buck to leave Congress next week, narrowing GOP’s slim majority

Associated Press

DENVER — Colorado Republican Rep. Ken Buck said Tuesday that he’ll resign next week, narrowing his party’s razor-thin House majority and potentially short-circuiting Rep. Lauren Boebert’s effort to succeed him. Buck, a staunch conservative who already declined to run for reelection as he became increasingly critical of his party’s handling of former President Donald Trump, made his surprise announcement in …

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10 months ago

“Humiliation”: Fox host buries GOP as Republican admits “we were warned” about indicted informant

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Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., claimed that top Republicans were warned about the debunked Biden claims from a former FBI informant before he was indicted for making up allegations that the Bidens took bribes. “We were warned at the time that we received the document outlining this witness’s testimony – we were warned that the credibility of this statement was not …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Who is Ken Buck, the Republican who voted against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas?

Hindustan Times

On Tuesday, February 6, 2024, the House of Representatives narrowly rejected a Republican-led effort to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border crisis. A vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed in the House of Representatives with a final vote tally being 214-216. Buck has been a vocal critic of …

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1 year ago

Column: Take this Congress and shove it! Two fed-up lawmakers say why they’ve had enough

LA Times

U.S. Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, left, a Democrat, and Ken Buck of Colorado, a Republican, are both retiring from Congress. “It almost seems quaint now,” Blumenauer said of that 1996 let’s-join-hands moment. “Life’s too short,” said Blumenauer, who plans to pursue his policy interests — public transit being a particular passion — in a less-toxic environment closer to home. …

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1 year, 1 month ago

House Republicans want 'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg's salary to be just one buck

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He should work for free. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is so fed up with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg that she brought forth an amendment and her fellow Republican lawmakers were on board to pass it. "Pete Buttigieg doesn’t do his job," she wrote in a thread on Twitter/X in a football spike following the vote that reduced his salary to …

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1 year, 1 month ago

GOP Rep. Ken Buck plans to challenge his party’s direction under Trump as he leaves the House

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — 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., …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Republican US Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado won’t seek reelection, citing party’s ‘insidious narratives’

Associated Press

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. DENVER — U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a conservative Republican who represents much of Colorado’s rural eastern plains, announced Wednesday he would not seek a sixth term in Congress, citing many in his party who refuse to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election and to condemn the Jan. 6, …

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1 year, 3 months ago

A far-right Republican is considering leaving Congress for CNN: report

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Rep. Ken Buck, a member of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, has reportedly been considering leaving Congress for CNN. Buck, who is reportedly facing a "serious" primary threat over his reluctance to impeach president Joe Biden, has recently made headlines for breaking with his party on issues involving Biden. "Buck said privately last month that he was interested in a …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Freedom Caucuser admits there's no evidence to impeach Biden — but says citizens want 'revenge'

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House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Ken Buck told CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday that proposals by House GOP leadership to impeach President Joe Biden lack any sort of evidence to move forward — the latest in a series of criticisms he has made of the plan. However, he added, many of his Republican constituents want the impeachment anyway, mainly because …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Freedom Caucus member slams GOP for making impeachment the next 'shiny object'

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A member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus on Tuesday slammed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, suggesting the California Republican is using talk of an impeachment inquiry against President Biden as a distraction from issues that really impact constituents. “It's absolutely Congress's role to look at possible impeachment, but I also think that if that is just a political game, then …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene punished for being McCarthy’s ‘pawn’: Ex-GOP strategist

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It wasn’t her much-publicized argument with a congressional colleague but rather Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s embrace of another House member that led to the far-right Republican from Georgia’s expulsion from the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus, a former GOP staffer said Thursday. “It's not so much that she's fighting with her colleagues; it's that she's become an ally of the speaker,” Brendan …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Ohio derailment tests Sen. Brown’s push to buck Dem defeats

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Sen. Sherrod Brown has survived a decade of statewide Democratic losses in Ohio by building a reputation as the rare person in his party who can still connect with the white working-class voters who have increasingly shifted to Republicans. “They felt like they have been ignored, which is why it’s been very strong Trump country,” said former Rep. …

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1 year, 11 months ago

'Making a mockery of the House': Longtime GOP insider shreds his party for leadership debacle

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On MSNBC Tuesday, Brendan Buck, a former aide to Republican House Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan, criticized his party for their failure to come together on the Speaker vote. This comes as the House continues to fight through multiple Speaker ballots after a group of hardline far-right lawmakers blocked GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy from being elected — the first …

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1 year, 11 months ago

'A wild situation': DC insider explains the consequences George Santos could face as more lies are exposed

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The trouble could just be starting for congressman-elect George Santos, according to a former top House Republican aide. Santos admits to fabricating major aspects of his background, including his education, work history and religious faith, and MSNBC political analyst Brendan Buck, who served as an aide to former GOP House speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan, told "Morning Joe" what …

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How Biden is navigating his rocky relationship with California’s top Republican

LA Times

President Biden, addressing a postelection gathering of congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday, said he hoped he could work with Congress on funding the government, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and supporting Ukraine. “I’m hopeful that Kevin and I can work out a modus vivendi as to how we’ll proceed with one another.” Republicans, meanwhile, lament the White …

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'That may have backfired': Ex-GOP staffer says Mike Johnson's plan came back to bite him

'Set themselves up for failure': Republicans said to be 'getting in the way' of their plan

'Don't have the discipline': Ex-GOP staffer scoffs at pricy Trump deportation plan

'A lot of friction': GOP aide predicts big fights between Trump and Republican lawmakers

Boebert will likely fill the House seat vacated by congressman who criticized the GOP’s extremes

Lauren Boebert out of political options if she doesn't crush imminent primary: analyst

Trump's trial will 'turn off' Christian voters regardless of verdict: ex-GOP lawmaker

Republican panel’s selection to be Rep. Buck’s likely replacement is a saving grace for Boebert

'He got bit by the Liz Cheney bug': Boebert disses retiring Ken Buck in his own district

Republican Rep. Ken Buck to leave Congress next week, narrowing GOP’s slim majority

“Humiliation”: Fox host buries GOP as Republican admits “we were warned” about indicted informant

Who is Ken Buck, the Republican who voted against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas?

Column: Take this Congress and shove it! Two fed-up lawmakers say why they’ve had enough

House Republicans want 'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg's salary to be just one buck

GOP Rep. Ken Buck plans to challenge his party’s direction under Trump as he leaves the House

Republican US Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado won’t seek reelection, citing party’s ‘insidious narratives’

A far-right Republican is considering leaving Congress for CNN: report

Freedom Caucuser admits there's no evidence to impeach Biden — but says citizens want 'revenge'

Freedom Caucus member slams GOP for making impeachment the next 'shiny object'

Marjorie Taylor Greene punished for being McCarthy’s ‘pawn’: Ex-GOP strategist

Ohio derailment tests Sen. Brown’s push to buck Dem defeats

'Making a mockery of the House': Longtime GOP insider shreds his party for leadership debacle

'A wild situation': DC insider explains the consequences George Santos could face as more lies are exposed

How Biden is navigating his rocky relationship with California’s top Republican