Dan Newhouse advised not to hold public events after receiving death threats

WASHINGTON – Just about every time Rep. Dan Newhouse posts on Facebook, the comments start pouring in with the same question from his constituents across central Washington.

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Newhouse is hardly the only Republican in Congress who has avoided large public events since President Donald Trump returned to office in January and began dramatically remaking the federal government with the consent of GOP majorities in the House and Senate, prompting backlash from many of their constituents. But in addition to the advice House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., gave all Republicans on March 4 to skip in-person town halls, Newhouse had another reason to avoid such public events.

Court records reveal that on March 20, the day Newhouse was in Pasco, a man allegedly called his office in Washington, D.C., and told the intern who answered the phone he planned to drive to the congressman’s district office and kill Newhouse and his staff. The court documents refer to Newhouse anonymously as “U.S. Representative 1,” but his spokesman confirmed that Newhouse is the unnamed lawmaker.

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Newhouse, a farmer from Sunnyside who served as a state lawmaker and led the Washington State Department of Agriculture before he was first elected to Congress in 2014, has drawn extra scrutiny from both the left and right since he voted in January 2021 to impeach Trump for inciting a riot at the Capitol weeks earlier. Eight of the 10 Republicans who made that choice have since left Congress via retirement or defeat, and Newhouse has survived two tough re-election races with the help of moderate voters and even Democrats who backed him over fellow Republican Jerrod Sessler in 2024.

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