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Rep. Thomas Massie loves to play the purist, but somehow that means the Kentucky Republican keeps voting with the Democrats whenever the pedal hits the metal.
The latest is Massie’s vow to vote “nay” on a continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown; the CR cleared the House Rules Committee this week and was sufficiently fiscally hawkish to win support from the Freedom Caucus.
It’s far from perfect, but that’s what governing means: taking wins where you can and compromising where you have to.
For Massie, that’s not enough.
Rather than act like an adult, he prefers to endanger the bill (remember, the GOP House majority is so thin it can only withstand one defection) and risk all the political opprobrium a shutdown would bring.
He posted on X: “Why would I vote to continue the waste fraud and abuse DOGE has found?”
Yet tanking this CR will do nothing meaningful about dealing with government waste longer-term.
Indeed, given that President Trump is the one who made DOGE real and that a shutdown would be a huge black eye for him, Massie’s “nay” is far more likely to hurt the cause he pretends to care about.
The truth is, he just likes the attention, and playing “fly in the ointment” is the only way for him to get any.
He pulled a similar stunt during the crucial January vote to re-elect Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker, serving as the lone Republican no.
He’s done the same (to take just one recent-ish example) on foreign policy, too, voting against the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bill aiming to slap China for its crimes against the Uyghurs.
Massie is, to use Trump’s term for him, a “grandstander”; he’s even laughing off the president’s call for a primary challenge next year, since he’s beaten three already.
Maybe the fourth time’s the charm, but one way or another, the GOP will have to find a way to repay Massie for his made-for-TV shenanigans.