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Freedom Caucus: Tweet Against Conservatives ‘Extremely Inappropriate’
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House Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows called President Donald Trump’s tweet arguing for possible primary challengers for members inappropriate in a Thursday interview with Politico’s Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer.
Shortly after the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act failed in the House, Trump asserted that Republicans needed to fall in line when it came to passing bills in the future, before calling for primary fights for those that don’t “get on the team.”
“The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast,” Trump tweeted in March. “We must fight them, and Dems, in 2018.”
Sherman asked House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Justin Amash if he felt threatened by the threat of a primary, and Amash responded that his voters elected him for a reason, and as long as he was doing what he promised, he was prepared to take on any primary.
Correction: An earlier version of this story attributed the tweet to President Donald Trump. The Meadows was referencing came from a Hill staffer.
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