The White House isn’t backing down from using the phrase “MAGA” to tie congressional Republicans to former President Trump, even after a government watchdog agency told officials its use violates the Hatch Act.
In a memo sent out late Thursday, slamming the Republican Study Committee’s fiscal budget, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates described it as “an extreme MAGA plan.”
“Congressional Republicans have also used ‘MAGA’ to refer to policies and official agenda frequently, for years now — even, clearly, before we entered the administration,” Mr. Bates wrote. “Because Ms. Jean-Pierre made the statements while acting in her official capacity, she violated the Hatch Act prohibition against using her official authority to influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election,” Ana Galindo-Marrone, who leads the agency’s Hatch Act Unit, wrote in a letter June 7.
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