GOP Congressman shares threatening voicemail

A Republican congressman who crossed the aisle to ballot for a Biden-backed infrastructure spending measure says helium and his household person faced decease threats aft casting his vote.

Rep. Fred Upton, R-Michigan, shared with CNN clips of threatening telephone calls placed to his bureau successful caller days aft helium voted successful favour of Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure package.

In 1 threatening voicemail, a caller labeled him a "f****** portion of s*** traitor."

"I anticipation you die. I anticipation everybody successful your f****** household dies," the caller said.

The caller aboriginal added that helium hoped everyone connected Upton's unit would die.

"To accidental the least, that genuinely is frightening," Upton said Monday during an quality connected CNN. "...I'll archer you it's a unspeakable mode — we person seen civility truly downslide here."

Upton was 1 of 13 Republican members of Congress to ballot successful favour of Biden's infrastructure package. The measure volition supply national funds to hole roads, bridges, the powerfulness grid and grow high-speed net access.

According to USA Today, Upton and different Republicans who supported the measure started getting threatening messages aft Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, tweeted the telephone numbers of each GOP subordinate who voted for the bill.

Upton was besides 1 of conscionable 10 Republican House members who voted earlier this twelvemonth to impeach then-President Donald Trump pursuing the Jan. 6 riots astatine the Capitol.