Subject: The Moral Cowardice of House Republicans
Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, a member of the House Rules Committee, spoke with Greg Sargent about the big beautiful bill and the Epstein files. McGovern said republicans have admitted that they voted for the bill -- despite knowing it will hurt their constituents -- because they are afraid of being bullied and primaried by Trumpedo.

I’ll tell you a story. When we were debating the big ugly bill that Trump was pushing, I was handling the debate on the rule side. I had a number of Republicans come up to me and tell me that I was right. This is a terrible bill. This is going to screw their constituents over. This is an awful thing to do to the American people. And I responded to them by saying, Look, I’m not wearing a collar. I’m not a priest. I don’t do confessions. And I certainly don’t do absolution. But I’d respect you more if you told me you actually believe in this crap and that’s why you were supporting the bill. But to tell me you don’t believe in this stuff, you think it’s going to hurt your own constituents, and vote for it anyway, that’s cowardice. That’s moral cowardice.

McGovern is on the rules committee and also spoke about the lengths House republicans are going to in order to hide the Epstein files.

And all of his supporters said that they wanted the Epstein files released. All of the sudden, he becomes president and they do a review of the files and now he doesn’t want to release them. So the question is: What’s he hiding? And I don’t normally ever agree with people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert; we’re on opposite ends of the political spectrum. But I appreciate the fact that they are asking that not only the files be released but they’re asking their fellow Republicans to sign on to the discharge petition that the speaker of the House is preventing from coming to the floor.

Currently, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, and Thomas Massie support the discharge petition. Just two more republicans with a spine are all that are needed.

Yeah, a tall order.

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