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Fox News Digital confirmed that President Donald Trump's political team has set up a Political Action Committee (PAC) targeting Republican Rep. Thomas Massie's Congressional seat in 2026.
Experienced Republican strategist Chris Lacivita, a former co-challenge manager for Trump’s 2024 presidential election, will turn to “Kentucky PAC.”
This is the first time the Trump campaign has targeted incumbent Republicans directly through the Super PAC, a move marks a positive new strategy that holds congressional Republicans accountable for the legislative agenda that thwarts Trump.
The news was first reported by Axios on Sunday night.
Just as the president considers whether to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, Massie has become the leading voice of the Republican Party, willing to challenge Trump's constitutional authority to trap the United States in an emerging conflict between Israel and Iran. When Trump announced a successful strike on three nuclear sites in Iran Saturday night, Massi was refuting the rebuttal that “it’s not constitutional”.
Thomas Massie said he felt “misleaded” by Trump after Iran's strike: “He was involved in the war”
R-Ky. Rep. Thomas Massie held a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the Cannon Building on January 7, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
“Fafo…. Working on Fo…” Lacivita responded to Massie on Saturday, which means “F — Around and find out.”
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By Sunday night, Lacivita confirmed Axios' report and answered “This is FO” on X – a clear message to Massie and any Republicans who undermined the president that Trump's political department was ready to respond.
Massie was elected as the U.S. representative for the fourth Congressional District of Kentucky in 2012. The fiscal flame, which is one of the few remaining Republican members who are willing to disagree with Trump’s remaining homes, has once again avoided the major Republican challenge of the crimson Kentucky in 2020 and 2024.
Last week, Republicans co-sponsored a resolution jointly proposed by the war powers with 48 Democrats in an attempt to prevent Trump from strike on Iran without Congress’s approval. Congress has the right to declare war Article 1 of the Constitution.
From left to right, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense President Pete Hegseth watched in a speech in the East Room of the White House in Washington on June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The war powers resolved to try to “evacuate U.S. armed forces from unauthorized hostilities of the Islamic State of Iran” and directed Trump to “terminate” deployment to Iran without “authorized declaration of war or specific authorization of military forces to declare war or specific authorization to Iran's authorization to Iran's authorization to Iran.”
When Trump announced a successful U.S. strike against Iran (without Congress’ approval), Massi and his Democratic co-sponsor (including Rep. Rohanna) quickly criticized the president on social media and “faced the country” when CBS News co-appeared.
“I’m a little misleading,” Massi told Fox News numbers in an interview Sunday afternoon. “I don’t think he will let the neoconservatives decide on his foreign policy and drag us into another war.”
Kentucky Republicans broke in from Trump on several other occasions and are one of the few Republican officials in open conflict with the president, especially government spending and foreign intervention.
Chris Lacivita, a former Trump campaign adviser, walked ahead of the Albanian election in Albania ahead of Sunday's election against the socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama, on May 9, 2025. (Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)
Trump threatened to master Massi because he was reluctant to bend over a large Republican bill negotiation, commenting later used in fundraising messages for his reelection campaign in 2026.
Massie was one of the great-power Republicans who voted against Trump last month on Trump's big giants, which he believes is not enough to solve the country's huge national debt, which has exceeded $36 trillion.
In a long social truth post on Sunday afternoon, Trump said he had enough Message dissidents, claiming that “Margo didn’t want him, didn’t know him, didn’t respect him”, calling him again the “Parkman.”
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“Like the plague, Margo should give up this pathetic loser, Tom Massie! The good news is that we will have a wonderful American Patriot against him in the Republican primary, and I will be working very hard on the Kentucky campaign. Maga is not about lazy, magnificent, extraordinary, non-productive politicians, and Thomas Massie is definitely a Sunday.”
Massie did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's investigation into the Kentucky PAC.
