News that Sen. Kay Granger, R-Texas, lives in a retirement facility and has experience. The decline was “very rapid.” It caused an outcry on social media this week across the political spectrum.
Among these sounds Including billionaire Elon MuskA prominent adviser and supporter of President Donald Trump.
“Maybe we should have a basic cognitive test for elected officials. This is crazy…” Musk said, referring to the news about Granger.
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Elon Musk says there should be basic cognitive testing for government officials. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)
Angela Morabito, former press secretary for the Department of Education, said Granger’s staff may have been “Conspirator”
Wow: Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), who hasn’t voted on a bill in 6 months, is secretly living in a nursing home. Records show she had 25 employees. If anyone knows – and it would be hard not to know – these things are complicated.” Morabito shared on–
Former Texas state representative Jonathan Stickland also commented on Granger, expressing that he is aware of her memory problems–
“No one should be angry at Rep. Kay Granger from six years ago. (As an elected official who regularly works with/around her) She obviously has serious memory problems. She didn’t know what was going on for a while, but her friends and employees lied to her. They failed to protect her and allowed her to stay in the office. Gotta be mad at them,” Stickland posted.
Mike Lee, Republican Senator of Utah Mentioning news about Granger It is considered a “compelling case for term limits.”
Granger’s disappearance was first reported by Dallas Express on Friday It quotes people in her district who say she lives in a memory care facility in Texas.
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Axios political reporter Hans Nichols admits missing out on stories about Granger due to limited resources available to journalists. On CNN Monday–
“(We) … have limited resources and limited time to report all of these stories. In other words, we should get Kay Granger’s story. I mean, I’m going to own part of that story. As someone who has spent time on The Hill, you know that collectively we are all guilty. It’s like it’s hard to discern blame,” said Nicholls.
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas Leaving the House Republican Conference at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington in 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Granger’s story comes after a year defined by President Biden’s intellectual and mental fitness challenges. This ultimately led to him being forced to drop out of the Democratic nomination. Reports have surfaced of a coordinated effort to conceal his reduction from the public.
White House press secretary Carine Jean-Pierre has repeatedly rejected questions about Biden’s ability to serve. told CNN in June 2022 that she herself had a difficult time following the president.
“Don, you’re asking me this question,” Jean-Pierre cried, clearly stunned. “Oh my God, he’s the president of the United States.”
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Social media erupted on Monday. After President Biden announced he would commute nearly all death sentences, (AP)
Executive Director, Women for America First Kylie Jane Kramer– Wrote in X: “It’s not just leadership. But all co-workers are well aware Just as we are angry about Biden, Kay Granger should be just as angry.”
Biden officials have noted declining strength and increasing confusion within the first few months of his term. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal based its report on interviews with nearly 50 people, both current and former. White House officials which interacts directly with the president and lawmakers
California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said in X that Congress has a “sclerotic elderly population.”
“Kay Granger’s long absence reveals the problem with a Congress that rewards seniority and connections more than merit and ideas. We have elderly people who are stingy. We need term limits. We have to get a lot of money from politics. so that new generations of Americans can Run to serve,” Khan posted.
Retired Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, at the unveiling of her portrait as chairman of the Appropriations Committee in Washington, D.C. (Kay Granger’s Office)
Progressive independent journalist Ken Klippenstein posted this in reference to a video of Granger speaking in the House of Commons in early 2024.
“Congresswoman Kay Granger’s claims that no one knows about dementia are laughable. Here she is speaking before Congress in March. By stuttering and stumbling every sentence while relying word for word on the written script. This is painful to watch,” Klippenstein said.
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Granger, who is 81 years old, is not running for re-election. and is retiring at the end of this election. parliamentary agenda Next month, she has remained largely absent from City Hall for the past few months. She last voted on July 24. She did not receive more than 54% of the vote this year. She also stepped down from her position on the House Appropriations Committee. It drafts laws that fund the federal government.
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Granger’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Fox News’ Hanna Panreck, Anders Hagstrom, Stephen Sorace and Chad Pergram contributed to this report.
