GOP Rep: WH Never Returned My Calls Asking To Help With Syria Vote

GOP Rep: WH Never Returned My Calls Asking To Help With Syria Vote

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) on ABC’s This Week: ” Look, I think it’s going to be very difficult for him to get votes. I think this goes back to, not just itself, but you can’t begin to build a relationship with Congress for the first time when you need their support on something like this. A week and a half ago, my office actually reached out to the White House and said, hey, we support the strike on Syria, we’re going to help you round up some support if you need it, I haven’t heard back from them yet. I haven’t heard back from anyone. I don’t even know who my White House liaison is, which is supposed to be creating this relationship. So now we find ourselves in a situation where I think the President has made the decision correctly that the cost of using chemical weapons should far exceed the benefit that anybody gains from it, and he’s trying to build a relationship with Congress, and there’s a trust deficit.”

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