Trump’s political team creates PAC to oust the Massie representative of Congress in 2026
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President Donald Trump’s political team launched a political action committee (PAC) targeting the GOP representative. Thomas Massie Congressional Seat in 2026, confirmed Fox News Digital.
Chris Lacivita, a veteran republican strategist who was co-campaign director of Trump’s presidential candidacy in 2024, and Tony Fabrizio, longtime survey of the GOP and Trump’s best sounder in 2024, will direct the “Kentucky Pac”.
This is the first time that the Trump campaign apparatus directly targets an outgoing republican through a super CAP, and the move has reported a new aggressive strategy to keep the Republicans of the Congress Responsible to thwart Trump’s legislative program.
The news was Reported for the first time by Axios Sunday evening.
While the president considered if he had to strike Iranian nuclear installations, Massie became the main republican voice willing to challenge Trump’s constitutional authority to inaugurate the United States in the emerging conflict between Israel and Iran. When Trump announced Saturday evening on three nuclear sites in Iran, Massie was clear in her refutation, “it is not constitutional”.
Thomas Massie says he feels “ incited ” by Trump after Iran struck: “ he is engaged in war ”
Representative Thomas Massie speaks to the media after a vote to stop a government closure at the American Capitol on March 11, 2025 in Washington. (Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“FAFO …. working on the FO …” Lacivita responded to Massie on Saturday, which means, “F — Around and find out.”
Sunday evening, Lacivita confirmed the Axios report, Answer x“Here is the FO” – A clear message to Massie, and any republican who undermines the president, that Trump’s political arm is ready to answer.
Massie was elected US representative of the fourth district of Kentucky in 2012. The Firebrand fiscal, one of the rare members of the GOP remaining ready to disagree with Trump, avoided the main republican challenges in dark red Kentucky in 2020 and again in 2024.
Last week, the Republican co -sponsored the Resolution of war powers With 48 democrats, trying to prevent Trump from hitting Iran without the approval of the congress. Congress has the sole power to declare war on Article I of the Constitution.
From left to right, Vice-President JD Vance, President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth look at the nation in the east house in the White House in Washington on June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barria / Reuters / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The resolution of war powers aims to “withdraw the armed forces in the United States from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic State of Iran” and orders Trump to “end” the deployment of American troops against Iran without “declaration of war authorized or specific authorization for the use of military forces against Iran”.
When Trump announced that the successful strikes of America on Iran – without approval from the Congress – Massie and his Democratic co -sponsors, including representative Ro Khanna, quickly criticized the president on social networks and during a joint appearance on “Faced with the nation” of CBS News Sunday.
“I feel a little misleading,” Massie told Fox News Digital in an interview on Sunday afternoon. “I didn’t think he would let the neocons determine his foreign policy and train in another war.”
The Kentucky Republican has broken Trump on several other occasions and was one of the few GOP officials to openly compete with the President – in particular on public spending and foreign intervention.
Chris Lacivita, a former Trump campaign advisor, is seen here in the Albanian capital before the election of Sunday against Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama in Tirana, Albania, on May 9, 2025. (Photo / Vlasov Sulaj)
Trump threatened with Massie primary for his reluctance to look at the house of Big Beautiful Bill of the Chamber, comments Massie used subsequently in fundraising messages for his re -election campaign in 2026.
Massie was one of the two Republicans of the Chamber who voted against the Megabill of Trump last month, arguing that he had not done enough to fight against the huge national debt of the country, which is at More than 36 dollars.
In a Post Social Long Truth Trump said on Sunday afternoon that he had enough of Massie’s dissent, saying that “Maga does not want it, does not know him and does not respect him”, and once again called him a “gallery”.
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“Maga should drop this pathetic loser, Tom Massie, like the plague! The good news is that we will have a wonderful American patriot against him in the republican primary, and I will be in Kentucky to campaign very hard. Maga is not a question of farmish and grandeur on Sunday.
Massie did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital investigation into Kentucky Pac.
