Alaska Senator voted against healthcare motion, Trump responded
Donald Trump and his team are plotting revenge after Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski voted against healthcare changes this week.
The Alaska Dispatch News reports that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called Murkowski and Alaska's other senator, Dan Sullivan, to say there would be consequences to breaking party lines.
The Dispatch News reports:
"Murkowski chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and has used the position to drive home Alaska priorities, particularly with Interior nominees. She oversees the confirmation process for the Interior Department.
On Wednesday, a committee hearing on nominations to the Interior and Energy departments was postponed indefinitely. A reason was not posted."
Given this story, it's a good time to go back to what Bridgewater's Ray Dalio wrote about earlier this year.
He argued that the earliest signal on how a populist politician will develop is how they handle conflicts. Will they ramp up confrontation and rhetoric, or show flexibility? Or as Bridgewater puts it, "whether the opposing forces can coexist to make progress or whether they increasingly "go to war" to block and hurt each other and cause gridlock."
