Chairwoman of the House Republican Conference Liz Cheney
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Trump, who has crouched in his Mar-a-Lago resort, is just a short flight from Orlando, where Republicans hold their annual rally from April 25-27.
But when asked by The Hill if Trump would show up, Cheney, one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the January 6 Capitol uprising, said curtly, “I didn’t invite him.”
The retreat is sponsored by the nonprofit Congressional Institute, but Cheney and other members of the GOP leadership team set the agenda. Trump had addressed previous House GOP retreats, including in Baltimore and at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, when he was president.
But the Republican Party is at war with itself after the attack on the Capitol and in the post-Trump era. Cheney and a small faction of Republicans are urging the party to reject Trump and move on, while the majority of GOP lawmakers embrace the former president, who remains a popular figure at the conservative base and flirts with a rematch against President Biden
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Some of Trump’s most dedicated loyalists in Congress, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene
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The proposed caucus has been outright condemned by Republicans across the political spectrum, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
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When Cheney spoke to reporters on Tuesday, she stepped up in what her first comments to the camera were about the America First Caucus.
“Any kind of nativism or racism or anti-Semitism – those things are bad,” Cheney said in the Capitol. “And that has to be very clear, and we as Americans have to be willing to speak that out.”