Republican Rep. Tom Massie is daring allies of President Trump to primary him as he refuses to support a GOP-backed stopgap spending plan.
The right-wing fiscal hawk insisted he won’t back down to pressure from the White House to get on board with a short-term spending bill that would avert a government shutdown as soon as Friday.
“Someone thinks they can control (me) by threatening my re-election. Guess what? Doesn’t work on me,” Massie posted on X. “My constituents prefer transparency and principles over blind allegiance.”
The Kentucky conservative insists he won’t drop his opposition to spending bills that he says simply raise the national debt, whether they are put forward by Democrats or Republicans.
Massie already voted against Trump’s bigger budget plan to lay the groundwork for big tax cuts, saying that plan too would just kick the nation’s debt problem down the road.
Trump himself slammed Massie, calling him “an automatic ‘NO’ vote on just about everything.” More here