Inside the Freedom Caucus and Trump’s Newly Frosty Relationship
It wasn’t so long ago that the House Freedom Caucus was known, essentially, as a loyalist organization for Donald Trump.
During Trump’s White House reign, the Freedom Caucus was frequently the first line of defense for the embattled president, so much so that two HFC founders—then-Reps. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) and Mark Meadows (R-NC)—became Trump’s last two chiefs of staff.
Of course, it wasn’t always like that. The Freedom Caucus has gone through a number of iterations in its nine years of existence, and in that time, the organization has changed just as dramatically—perhaps even more dramatically—than the GOP itself.