Herrera Beutler and other Republicans briefed on the conversation confirmed to CNN that Trump is commenting on the prospective insurgents who care more about the election results than McCarthy. The House of Representatives and Trump’s legal team finally agreed to insert a statement from the congresswoman in the trial record, rather than enforcing a deposit.
Although the moderate Republican congresswoman caused a stir in Saturday’s proceedings, she kept a relatively low profile during her time on Capitol Hill.
Herrera Beutler has served the 3rd Congress District of Washington since 2011 and has held her seat for the past decade, and was re-elected to a sixth term in 2020. She works as a staff member for Washington’s GOP Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and she also served in Washington State House for about three years before being elected to Congress at age 31.
Herrera Beutler was a young mother and one of the few women in the Republican Conference – and one of the even fewer Republican women of color in Congress – and co-founder of the Maternity Care Caucus. focused on legislation to help mothers.
She has sponsored two pieces of legislation – both signed into law – to prevent maternal deaths and provide children with ‘medically complicated’ conditions on Medicaid with better access to care and treatment. Another measure she supported required that the transportation safety administration could better accommodate parents traveling with breast milk and feeding equipment.
Although Herrera Beutler largely voted in line with Trump’s priorities, she occasionally broke with the former president and the GOP.
On Saturday, Democratic senators voted with five Republicans to allow witnesses to appear in Trump’s indictment, while House officials want to call Herrera Beutler as a witness.
But shortly thereafter, the Senate reversed its course, and Representative Jamie Raskin, the head of the indictment, read Herrera Beutler’s statement in the trial record.