Kevin Kiley faces election crossroads after rebuking Trump's tariffs

Rep. Kevin Kiley’s (R-CA) decision to break from President Donald Trump and GOP leadership on tariffs could complicate his political future as he weighs running for reelection in two different California seats after his own was eviscerated by Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s Democratic gerrymander.

Kiley has defended his decision to vote with a small group of GOP rebels against extending the House’s ban on considering legislation repealing Trump’s tariffs. He told the Washington Examiner that banning measures from coming to the floor “is a direct shift in power from the membership to leadership” and Congress needed to go in the “other direction.”