GOP lawmaker boycotts meetings and panels, saying she doesn’t ‘need to be involved in circuses’
Rep. Victoria Spartz announced Monday that she is opting out from serving on committees next year and will boycott the House GOP conference meetings, a rare move given she also stated her intention to remain a Republican.
“I will stay as a registered Republican but will not sit on committees or participate in the caucus until I see that Republican leadership in Congress is governing. I do not need to be involved in circuses,” Spartz wrote on X.
I will stay as a registered Republican but will not sit on committees or participate in the caucus until I see that Republican leadership in Congress is governing. I do not need to be involved in circuses. I would rather spend more of my time helping @DOGE and @RepThomasMassie to… https://t.co/ZNju2jvNHk
— Rep. Victoria Spartz (@RepSpartz) December 16, 2024
President Trump @realDonaldTrump has one year and two reconciliations to save our Republic! 🇺🇸 Congress cannot fail him and the American people again.
See my full statement below on my refusal to participate in the Republican conference, its committees and resignation from the…
— Rep. Victoria Spartz (@RepSpartz) December 17, 2024
The decision to step down confused some Republicans, but others suspected the move had something to do with the House GOP Steering Committee not giving her a coveted post on the House Ways and Means Committee, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Spartz, who has had problems with retaining staff, said she’d prefer to “spend more of my time helping” the mission of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which is meant to help cut government spending.
Some Republicans are happy about her decision to boycott the conference meetings, according to two people familiar with the situation, as some had privately complained about her speaking too much during the internal GOP meetings.
JUST IN: GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz shreds Speaker Johnson over the bogus spending bill, accuses him of conspiring with Democrats to make “a bunch of slush funds.”
Absolutely criminal.
“Speaker Johnson didn’t even talk to moderate Republicans, not just to conservatives.”
“He… pic.twitter.com/zXwUppL51T
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 18, 2024
