McCarthy faced a so-called motion to vacate from Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who put forth the motion after McCarthy, his allies and Democrats passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government open -- legislation that Republican hard-liners said greenlit too much spending. ...
McCarthy has chosen “the cult of personality in his cowardice at catering to Trump,” said Marisa Wood, a schoolteacher and Democrat running against McCarthy in the20th Congressional District.“We have high poverty and crime here. Kevin voted against the infrastructure bill that could have helpe...
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after McCarthy headed off a government shutdown by dropping the funding from a last-minute,short-term spending billover the weekend. The measure passed the House with the support of all the Democrats except one, and lost the votes
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Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the committee, said McCarthy's comments finally confirm what he has long claimed. "This stunning concession from Rep. McCarthy reveals the truth that Republicans never dared admit in public: The core Republican goal in establishing the Benghazi Committee...
A source close to McCarthy told CNN the decision to drop out came down to “numbers, pure and simple,” adding that “he had the votes to win the conference vote, but there just wasn’t a path to 218” – the number of votes needed to lock down the speakership on the Ho...
Republican Kevin McCarthy has been elected as the new US Speaker after winning the 15th vote as tensions boiled over in Congress. Mr McCarthy's party had taken control of the House – the US lower chamber – following the midterm elections in the autumn, with a slim 222-212 majority...
Kevin McCarthy has been the House Republican leader since 2018, but by Tuesday's morning prelude to the vote for speaker of the House, it seemed at least a dozen Republicans would vote against him. Following a Republican conference meeting in which the various factions wer...
of the McCarthy rebels. An occasional moderate who sometimes postures with the hard right, Mace might not be in office if not for McCarthy; when she first ran for Congress in 2020, the GOP leader steered millions of dollars to her struggling campaign to flip a seat held by a Democrat. ...