The "Sedition Caucus" was the pejorative nickname given to the Republican members of the 117th US Congress who voted against the certification of the Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election in either Arizona or Pennsylvania just hours after the 2021 United States coup d'etat attempt. The name originated with the media and the Republican Party's political opponents, although the term was soon adopted by scholars. On 31 December 2020, the Orlando Sentinel coined the term to describe, "about a dozen senators (who have) declared they're joining what's disparagingly being called the Sedition Caucus to overturn the election, despite Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's warnings against such a move." The majority of members of the informal "Sedition Caucus" came from "deep-red" congressional districts, with swing district congresspeople mostly voting in favor of certification. The Caucus included Republican US Senators Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Cindy Hyde-Smith, John Neely Kennedy, Cynthia Lummis, Roger Marshall, Rick Scott, and Tommy Tuberville and 139 members of the US House of Representatives. As a result, seven major corporations pulled their funding from members of the "Sedition Caucus" in protest against their complicity in the violent attempt by far-right extremists to prevent President-elect Biden from assuming office and overturn the election results.