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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump’s ex-chief of staff says fear among Republican politicians is the ‘consequence’ of disagreeing with him

Former White House chief of staff and Republican Party chair Reince Priebus waved off a GOP senator’s concerns about threats from Donald Trump supporters as the “consequence” of disagreeing with a “popular” president on Sunday.

Priebus was interviewed on ABC’s This Week and responded to recent comments from Lisa Murkowksi, a centrist Republican senator from Alaska. She has broken with the president on the floor of Congress numerous times, most notably in 2017 when she and two other Republicans voted to sink a GOP proposal that would have gutted the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Earlier this year, she also opposed the nomination of Pete Hegseth as secretary of Defense.

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