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House Republicans Biting Their Nails Over Departing Colleagues

House Republicans are reportedly getting nervous over the slew of early announcements from their GOP colleagues leaving Congress ahead of 2020.
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House Republicans Are Biting Their Nails Over Flood Of Departing Colleagues

House Republicans are reportedly getting nervous over the early slew of retirement announcements from their GOP colleagues in Congress.

Congressional Republicans told the Hill that morale in the caucus is low after functioning as the minority party in the House, and President Donald Trump isn’t helping.

“The odds are against us retaking the majority,” an unnamed senior Republican lawmaker told the Hill.

The lawmaker partly put the blame on Trump, who’s “made an already hostile political environment worse.”

“Every day there is some indefensible tweet or comment to defend or explain,” the Republican said. “It is exhausting and often embarrassing.”

Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) told the Deseret News on Monday that he wouldn’t seek reelection.

And the House Republican caucus was hit especially hard last week when Reps. Martha Roby (R-AL), Pete Olson (R-TX) and Paul Mitchell (R-MI) all announced that they were leaving Congress.

Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT) plans to drop out of the House to run for governor in 2020, while Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) is aiming for Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL)’s seat.
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Trump Hopes New DNI Will ‘Rein’ In Intel Agencies That Have ‘Run Amok’

President Trump didn’t hide his intentions for hiring a Republican lawmaker to replace Dan Coats
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Trump Wants New DNI To ‘Rein’ In Intel Agencies That Have ‘Run Amok’


President Trump didn’t hide his intentions for hiring a Republican lawmaker to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence while speaking to the press on Tuesday.

He said he nominated Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) — who, among other things, thinks special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is linked to the Clinton Foundation — to “rein” in an intelligence community that he claims has “run amok” under Coats, an official who’s vociferously warned of Russia’s meddling efforts.

“I think that John Ratcliffe is going to do an incredible job if he gets approved, he’s gotta get approved, but I think he’ll do a great job, I hope he gets approved,” he told reporters Tuesday. “I think we need somebody like that, we need somebody strong that can really rein it in because, as I think you’ve all learned ,the intelligence agencies have run amok. They’ve run amok.”

Trump tends to undermine his own intelligence community when it comes to findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 election — and has even publicly accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials of interference — because he feels it delegitimizes his win.
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