U.S. Chamber Leader Calls Bannon and Warren Extremists
- Donohue says organization will involve itself in GOP primaries
- Group likely to spend more than $29 million on 2018 elections
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The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Wednesday his organization will deeply involve itself in this year’s midterm congressional elections -- including Republican primaries -- as he called both Steve Bannon and Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren extremists.
“If we’re only sending ideological purists and strict partisans to Washington, we’re stopping progress before it even starts,” Thomas Donohue, the chamber’s president, said in his annual address on American business in Washington. “So, if we’re going to fight back against the extremes of both parties -- of Steve Bannon and Elizabeth Warren -- those people do not represent the best interests of this country.”