A Republican who's been in Congress for over two decades had a message for the former president.
Don Young told The Washington Post that his policy was good. "Just shut up, that's all he has to do." He's not going to. I know that.
Young has been in office since the Nixon administration. The Alaska Republican was sworn into the House after winning a special election.
Young was one of 13 House Republicans who voted for the infrastructure law. The same group was attacked by Trump and backlash from voters and far-right lawmakers. She called them traitors.
In the days after the vote, Trump said that the Republicans should be ashamed of themselves for delivering Biden a victory on a critical element of his domestic agenda. It will give $550 billion in new funding to repair roads, bridges, and highways.
Young told The Post that Trump didn't take the news well when he was told that he would vote for Biden.
He is part of a small group of Republicans in Congress who are willing to defy Trump. The Republicans voted to overturn the election results. Young voted to certify Biden's Electoral College victory because he wanted to defend the Constitution and respect the will of voters in the states.
Young's appetite to break the party-line only goes so far. He was not among the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol.
Trump recently called for "good and smart America First Republican candidates to run primary campaigns against a number of House Republicans." Several of the Republicans voted to impeach Trump. Young's infrastructure vote turned the former president against him despite not voting to impeach.
