After voting for the bipartisan infrastructure package, Rep. Fred Upton, Republican of Michigan, received a threatening voicemail. The caller said: “I hope everyone in your fucking family died.”
Upton is one of them 13 House Republicans voted for A $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill late last Friday.The bill is already in Senate It won some Republican support in August.tough Republicans Said that the person who voted for it should be Delisted by the Republican Party To help Democratic Party Through the president Joe BidenAgenda.
The caller called Upton a “traitor” and then said: “I want you to die. I want your fucking family to die.”
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Callers continued to use swear words, calling Upton “more stupid” than Biden.
Upton played a voice mail while speaking on Monday CNN Anchor Anderson CooperUpton said the call was not from one of his voters. Instead, the voicemail came from a man in South Carolina.Republican Senator of South Carolina Lindsey Graham Also voted in favor of the bill.
“We have seen that the level of civilization here has really declined,” Upton told Cooper, noting that this threatening voicemail has become more frequent. “I am worried about my employees. They are answering these calls. They are a threat to them.” Upton pointed out that some congressional workers are only in their early 20s.
After voting in the House of Representatives on Friday, the Republican representative of Georgia Marjorie Taylor Green The office phone numbers of 13 House Republicans were posted on Twitter.
Saturday, Green tweeted, “These are 13’Republicans’ who gave their voting cards to [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi To take over the United States through the so-called infrastructure through Joe Biden’s Communist Party. “
In a tweet on November 5, the Republican Colorado representative Lauren Bobert Name 13 people as nominal Republicans (RINOs).
“RINOS just passed this wasted $1.2 trillion’infrastructure’ bill,” she wrote on Twitter. “Pelosi did not vote to pass this rubbish in her party. It’s time to name and hold these fake Republicans accountable.”
On the same evening, Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs wrote on Twitter: “Republicans who voted for the Democratic Socialist Spending Act are the reason Americans do not trust. Congress.”
Former president Donald Trump Also on sunday Slamming Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Republicans On the bipartisan pass of the bill.
Trump wrote in a statement: “The RINO in the Senate and House of Representatives gave Biden and the Democrats a victory on the’non-infrastructure’ bill, which is very sad.” “All Republican senators who voted They all think that helping the Democratic Party is a great thing, so politically correct. They just don’t understand!”
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