WaPo: “Almost 200 House Republicans voted Thursday to reinstall a Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. All of the House GOP leadership, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), voted for the measure. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) — a Black conservative and Donald Trump surrogate who took heat this month for seeming to praise aspects of the Jim Crow era — voted for it as well. Stefanik and Donalds have been mentioned as possible vice-presidential picks for Trump.
The amendment, which was part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2024, failed 230-192 after two-dozen Republicans sided with Democrats in voting against it. Most Republicans — Reps. Wesley Hunt (R-Tex.) and Burgess Owens (R-Utah), who are Black — supported the amendment proposed by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.); no Democrats did.”