Republican National Committee members passed a resolution on Friday to formally censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois over their work on a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an unprecedented rebuke of sitting members of Congress.
The resolution, passed by voice vote at the party’s winter meeting in Salt Lake City, highlights the rift in the Republican Party between loyalists of former President Donald Trump and critics like Cheney and Kinzinger, who have sought to investigate his role in last year’s attack on the Capitol and Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The measure calls for the party to no longer support the two members over their behavior “which has been destructive to the institution of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republican Party and our republic,” according to a draft first published by The Washington Post.
