Indiana Lt. Gov: Trump Threatened To Withhold Funding If We Didn’t Redistrict
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In a now-deleted post, Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith said Thursday the Trump administration very explicitly threatened to withhold federal funds from the state if it didn’t bow to pressure and help him rig the House by drawing a new congressional map.
“The Trump admin was VERY clear about this,” Beckwith, a MAGA Republican who supported the unprecedented redistricting plan, said on social media.
“They told many lawmakers, cabinet members and the Gov and I that this would happen. The Indiana Senate made it clear to the Trump Admin today that they do not want to be partners with the WH. The WH made it clear to them that they’d oblige.”
Before he deleted the post, Beckwith confirmed the threat in separate comments to Politico, but puzzlingly claimed it wasn’t actually a threat while describing the nature of the threat itself.
“Yes these conversations happened,” he told Politico reporter Adam Wren. “But it’s not a threat. It’s an honest conversation about who does the WH want to partner with. There are 49 other states competing for all kinds of projects. Indiana told the WH today they don’t want to be a good partner to the Trump Admin and I suspect the WH will look to partner with other states before us.”
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