Sen. Mitt Romney(R-Utah) is the only Senate Republican who was not invited to be a part of President Donald Trump‘s bipartisan group of legislators focusing on re-opening the U.S. economy.
Romney was also the sole Republican who voted to found guilty Trump during the impeachment trial earlier this year, over Trump’s efforts to press Ukraine into investigating his opponent in the 2020 election. All other Republicans in the Senate voted to acquit Trump, and many defended Trump’s habits.
The White Home asked both Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate to serve in the group on Wednesday, the same day he revealed that he had collected a group of business leaders to serve on his “Opening Our Country Council.”
The congressional task force is among several groups the Trump administration developed as part of its effort to revitalize the economy, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues fairly unabated.
Besides Romney’s 52 Republican colleagues in the Senate, it includes 32 members of the House– 22 Republicans and 10 Democrats– along with