Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., following his speech during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on Feb. 22, 2024. Donalds has served as the U.S. representative for Florida’s 19th congressional district since 2021.
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Lara Trump, Boris Epshteyn, Eric Trump, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, former Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Jason Miller listen as former President Donald Trump speaks to the media on May 14, 2024 after leaving Manhattan Criminal Court in New York during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments. Trump is on trial for 34 counts of falsifying business records.
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(L-R) Republican Representatives of Florida, Cory Mills and Byron Donalds, and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speak to the press outside of the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on May 14, 2024, as former President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., speaks outside the Manhattan Criminal Court as former President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments, in New York on May 14, 2024.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., talks to reporters as he leaves the Capitol on Nov. 14, 2023 in Washington, D.C. The House of Representatives voted on a series of bills including an interim spending bill it passed to fund the government, which will now go to the Senate for consideration.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., attends the Florida Freedom Summit at the Gaylord Palms Resort on Nov. 4, 2023 in Kissimmee, Fla. The Republican Party of Florida hosted the summit as candidates continued to campaign across the country.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., leaves a House Republican conference meeting in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Oct. 24, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Members of the GOP conference met for a closed-door vote to select their nominee for Speaker of the House to succeed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who was ousted on Oct. 4 in a move led by a small group of conservative members of his own party.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., a member of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, moves past reporters on his way to a House Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 19, 2023 in Washington, D.C. A deal between factions of House Republicans, negotiated in part by Donalds, to pass a stopgap spending bill and avoid a government shutdown will be tested with a procedural vote.
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Former President Donald Trump visits the Iowa Pork Producers Tent with Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 12, 2023 in Des Moines, Iowa. Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls are visiting the fair, a tradition in one of the first states that will test candidates with the 2024 caucuses.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., speaks during the Moms for Liberty Joyful Warriors national summit at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown on June 30, 2023. The self-labeled “parental rights” summit is bringing school board hopefuls from across the country where attendees will receive training and hear from Republican presidential candidates which include former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. The summit, which is being held in an overwhelmingly Democratic Philadelphia, has drawn protestors since the event was announced due to their pushing of book bans accusing schools of ideological overreach, including teaching about race, gender, and sexuality.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., joins fellow House Freedom Caucus members to announce they would oppose the deal to raise the debt limit during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on May 30, 2023 in Washington, D.C. The conservative lawmakers urged their fellow House Republicans to vote against the compromise between Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden that would avert a government default.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., attends an address from South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to a Joint Meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 27, 2023.
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Congressman Byron Donalds, R-Fla., during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, in National Harbor, Md., on March 3, 2023.
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Nevada Republican U.S. Senate nominee Adam Laxalt greets Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., during a campaign rally on Oct. 22, 2022 in Las Vegas. Laxalt is in a tight race with incumbent Sen. Catherine Marie Cortez, D-Nev., as early voting in Nevada begins.
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are greeted by Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., upon arrival at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Florida, on Oct. 5, 2022. The president and first lady are traveling to Fort Myers, Florida, to survey the storm ravaged areas and meet with small business owners and state officials.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., on media row during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., on March 2, 2023.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and National Policy Director Chris Barnard, of the American Conservation Coalition speak on stage during Tackling the Climate Emergency at The 2022 Concordia Annual Summit – Day 1 at Sheraton New York on Sept. 19, 2022 in New York City.
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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., speaks at a news conference in the U.S. Capitol building on June 14, 2022 in Washington, D.C. House Republicans spoke to reporters following their annual caucus meetings and discussed the recent public hearings that were held over the last week by the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee member Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., calls a hearing about sexual harassment in the National Football League a “show trial” in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 22, 2022 in Washington, D.C.
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U.S. Representatives Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., (2nd L), Byron Donalds, R-Fla., (C) and Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., (R) listen as President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol House Chamber on March 1, 2022 in Washington, D.C. In his first State of the Union address, Biden spoke on his administration’s efforts to lead a global response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, work to curb inflation, and bring the country out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Byron Donalds, right, Republican primary candidate for Florida’s 19th congressional district, talks to volunteers during primary election day at the Collier County library headquarters in Naples, Fla., on Aug. 18, 2020.
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A Byron Donalds sign sits in the back window of a car during primary election day at the Collier County library headquarters in Naples, Fla., on Aug. 18, 2020.
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Byron Donalds makes an appearance during a campaign rally for Donald Trump at Germain Arena on Sept. 19, 2016, in Estero, Fla.
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Byron Donalds addresses the crowd at a vigil in Florida’s East Naples Community Park in 2012, in support of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old who was shot in Sandford by a neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman.
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