The moderate senator of the Republican Party of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, said this week that she and other legislators are concerned about reprisals for speaking against some of the Trump administration policies.
Murkowski (R-Alaaska) refrained from calling President Trump directly or elaborate more specifically about what is nervous, but emphasized that “reprisal is real.”
“We are all afraid,” he admitted Rodeos to Murkowski at a summit of non -profit leaders in Anchorage on Monday when asked about what he tells people who are nervous.
After a pregnant pause, Murkowski added: “It is a great statement, but we are in a time and place where I certainly have no legs here before.”
Alaska’s senator promised that, despite her fear, she will continue “using my voice as best I can”, that it is frontational or charming.
His comments at the Foraker Group Leadership Summit were first covered by Anchorage Daily News, but then viral.
“The only remuneration of President Trump is the success and historical achievements for the American people,” said White House assistant secretary, Taylor Rogers, to the post on the trepidations of Murkowski.
In 2023, President Trump proclaimed: “I am his remuneration”, an address at the Conservative Conference of Political Action (CPAC), but then the remuneration will be success.
Murkowski is widely considered one of the most centrist republicans in the Senate. It opposes some of Trump’s teams, such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth and FBI director Kash Patel, among others.
It has also been critical of some of the cuts of the Government Efficiency Department (Doge), as well as Trump’s move to change the name of Mount Denali, Mount McKinley.
In other cases, Murkowski praised the Trump administration, including the work done by Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
Duration The electoral cycle of 2024, Murkowski made it clear that he would not vote for Trump. He was also one of the seven Republican senators who voted to condemn him during the second political trial that followed the disturbances of the Capitol of January 6, 2021.
Only three of those Republicans are still in the Senate: Murkowski, Sens. Susan Collins (R-MAINE) and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
“He is turning his head,” Murkowski lamented about the current state of things. “It seems that just when you have made some progress in a problem that had caused so much anxiety, there is another.”
“It is as difficult as anything in which I have bone, in the year more than 20 years that I have bone in the Senate.”
Murkowski has gone through difficult political times before. Duration The movement of the Tea Party among the conservatives, Murkowski had been defeated in a Republican primary in 2010. But she set up a rare but successful writing and finally won the general elections.
His native state of Alaska is one of the five main states in terms or percentage of federal workers.
“I think it is important that the groups are continuous instead of letting the fatigue of chaos move you,” he added.
Murkowski’s viral comments caused mixed reactions from the observers, and the Democrats highlighted the comments to attack Trump and the conservatives who dragged her for not being a team player.
“No one throughout the federal government is less afraid than Lisa Murkowski, who has survived multiple main challenges, was re -elected as a candidate of a third party in writing after losing one, and has made her state rewrite her electoral laws just to protect her,” said National Review writer Dan McLaughlin.
“I think it is good that our politicians are afraid of voters,” said Townhall Kurt Schliterer columnist.
“But where was she in the last 4 years when Biden was using the law to persecute her political opponents? Oh, is it true, is really a Democrat,” said Tim Young, media partner of the Heritage Foundation.
“To a large extent I do not agree with Lisa Murkowski on political matters, but going on stage and talking openly about her fear of Donald Trump’s revenge is incredible brave. This nightmare will never end up unless it is” “, Junsery ‘Bunsery omitted.
“This is an honest, brave and deeply disturbing admission to Senator @Lisamurkowski about the state of our policy and our country,” said Obama’s campaign strategist, David Axelrod.
“As some who have spoken against Trump, I understand the fear of reprisals,” said Sarah Matthews, former Subsecretary of the White House press, became witness to the January 6 committee.
“I appreciate Senator Murkowski for saying what many of his colleagues feel but do not admit it. But we cannot give that fear. It is too much at stake and the silence is exactly what Trump’s administrator wants.”