welcome
Washington Post

Washington Post

US Politics

US Politics

Who is Thomas Massie, the GOP lawmaker Trump is threatening to oust?

Washington Post
Summary
Nutrition label

72% Informative

Thomas Massie has a reputation among his peers as a contrarian, unafraid to use the House rule book to make an ideological point.

Massie, 54 , has represented Kentucky ’s 4th Congressional District since 2012 .

The staunch fiscal conservative has opposed nearly all government spending bills.

He created a three-inch -long pin that updates the national debt in real time.

Trump called Massie a “ third -rate Grandstander” for delaying the vote on the 2020 rescue bill.

Massie also got into a shouting match with then-Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) over gun control in the aftermath of a mass killing at a Nashville school in 2023 .

VR Score

74

Informative language

69

Neutral language

55

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

46

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

External references

22

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/08/motion-to-vacate-house-speaker-marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpPYkqpe-Ms&feature=emb_logohttps://www.debtbadge.com/https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1467197523127422979https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/17/why-massie-is-key-effort-depose-johnson/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/03/11/house-vote-count-government-shutdown-continuing-resolution/https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1898927168224108835https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-rep-massie-ratchets-up-his-obstinance-forces-house-colleagues-back-to-dc/2020/03/27/ddf94734-7028-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.htmlhttps://x.com/MassieforKY/status/1849860030654448055https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114141533823019998https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/01/06/here-are-the-republicans-who-voted-against-john-boehner-for-speaker/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/30/jamaal-bowman-thomas-massie-shouting-gun-control/https://massie.house.gov/about/https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/05/30/house-republicans-trump-primaries/https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1899187371314413636https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1520364716757037056https://x.com/MassieforKY/status/1772296944364179677https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/11/government-shutdown-trump-republicans-house/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/12/government-shutdown-democrats-senate/https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/489840-john-kerry-gop-lawmaker-against-coronavirus-relief-package-tested/https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114147788974149994https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1243534441772974081

Affiliate links

no affiliate links

Small business owner?

Otherweb launches Autoblogger—a revolutionary way to bring more leads to any small business, using the power of AI.