The following article by from CBS and the Associated Press was posted on the CBS News website August 30, 2018:
The political network created by the billionaire Koch brothers announced plans to support eight House Republicans on Thursday, pledging financial resources and activists to help re-elect several vulnerable congressmen deemed “principled” conservatives.
The first wave of endorsements includes a handful of sometime-critics of President Trump, particularly on immigration and spending.
The announcement comes a month after Mr. Trump assailed the Koch brothers as “a total joke in real Republican circles.” Days earlier, network patriarch Charles Koch had condemned the increased government spending under the Republican president’s leadership and Mr. Trump’s push for import tariffs. The Koch brothers have also been critical of Mr. Trump’s protectionist trade measures. In July, Tim Phillips, president of the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity, told CBSN that the aluminum and steel tariffs implemented by the Trump administration were “misguided.”