WASHINGTON — The U.S. Capitol is now Trump country, but that doesn’t mean Republican senators want to discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nomination, Matt Gaetz. “I'm just not gonna spend my day talking about everything that happens,” Sen. Jerry Moran told Raw Story as he hopped a congressional tram Thursday. That's for the next Congress, so I got nothing,” …
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LOADING ERROR LOADING Rep. Matt Gaetz, who has been embroiled in a federal sex-trafficking investigation, on Wednesday joined 19 other Republicans in voting against a House bill targeting human trafficking. Gaetz took issue with the bill’s definition of “human trafficking” and its cost, spokesperson Joel Valdez told USA Today. “The government’s failure to accurately and specifically define human trafficking allows …
LOADING ERROR LOADING Marc Short, who was chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, spat fire at Rep. Matt Gaetz on Monday after the congressman told students at a conservative conference over the weekend that Pence “will never be president.” “Well, I don’t know if Mike Pence will run for president in 2024,” Short told CNN’s Erin Burnett. So …
