The Republican senator from Utah suggested in social media posts that the killings were the work of “Marxists,” and mocked Minnesota’s Democratic governor. He later issued a more sober condemnation of the violence.
The senator is known on Capitol Hill for being kind and nerdy. His forcible removal from a news conference resonated as a call to action among Democrats.
Colleagues and friends say Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s 87-year-old nonvoting delegate and a veteran of fights over home rule, is struggling to do her job.
Republicans in the chamber are bending over backward to appease the world’s richest man, who is furious at them for voting for a bill to deliver President Trump’s domestic policy agenda.
Elon Musk’s opposition to the bill has put House Republicans in the awkward position of straining to satisfy two authority figures who are now at odds.
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