Why McCarthy’s ‘clown show’ hardliners may still have the last laugh
US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is leaning increasingly on Democrats to push legislation through Congress. Republicans are not happy and could seek to remove him.
Washington | If the two most important bills Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has introduced are anything to go by, it’s fair to say the most senior Republican in Congress is governing from a Democrat base.
And McCarthy’s reliance on Democrat support for bills that have averted government shutdowns only fires up his own party’s hardliner right-wing faction. The House Freedom Caucus is now threatening to take the Speaker’s gavel from him.
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