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President Donald Trump is increasing pressure on Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to align with House Republicans and vote yes on the government funding bill.<\/p>\n

In a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump labels Massie as a \u201cCongressman\u201d and a grandstander. It follows a message Monday where Trump suggested Massie should be primaried \u2014 saying he would \u201clead the charge\u201d against Massie in the upcoming midterm election and comparing the Kentucky Republican to former Rep. Liz Cheney.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe additionally voted to delay the current Budget Disaster from the Biden Administration to the Trump Administration. I was running for Office at the time, doing my thing, and when I heard about this, it was, quite simply, hard to believe \u2014 A catastrophic mistake!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Massie has been adamantly against the CR and has vowed to vote against it. \u201cUnless I get a lobotomy Monday that causes me to forget what I\u2019ve witnessed the past 12 years, I\u2019ll be a NO on the CR this week,\u201d Massie wrote on X<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

His no vote alone won\u2019t stop the CR from passing, but combined with any other defections, it poses a risk to Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s razor-thin margins. It\u2019s also a defiance of Trump\u2019s orders for the Republican Party to fall in line.<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also stressed Trump\u2019s urging for every Republican to back the bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president has made it very clear he believes it is critical for conservatives and Republicans and frankly all members of Congress to get behind this continuing resolution to keep the government funded,\u201d Leavitt said at a press briefing Tuesday. \u201cHe has been active in this process and making calls to get this over the finish line, and we are urging every Republican \u2014 and Democrats, too \u2014 to do what is right for the American public to prevent a government shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Massie said the threat of Trump challenging his election hasn\u2019t fazed his vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cPOTUS is spending his day attacking me and Canada,\u201d Massie wrote on X on Tuesday<\/a>. \u201cThe difference is Canada will eventually cave.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump is increasing pressure on Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to align with House Republicans and vote yes on the government funding bill. In a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump labels Massie as a \u201cCongressman\u201d and a grandstander. It follows a message Monday where Trump suggested Massie should be primaried \u2014 saying he would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}