Washington— Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is resigning from Congress at the end of the month, he announced Wednesday, ending weeks of speculation about his future after he was ousted from his leadership role in October. "I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to...
“I’ll have the votes,” McCarthy predicted to CNN about the vote Friday night. McCarthy was still off by one. Despite “Never Kevin” leaders Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boehbert voting “present,” instead of in opposition, McCarthy still could not muster more than half of the votes on ...
Kevin McCarthy “dreamed up” his contrafactual version of U.S. history. Would Native Americans agree that U.S. wars never resulted in land grabs? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11/kevin-mccarthy-says-america-never-acquired-land-via-war Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said ...
"Kevin McCarthy was taking the path of Nancy Pelosi," she said, apparently because he opposed a rule for the chamber that allowed any one representative to kick off a motion to unseat him. The hard right appeared to be in rebellion. And so it proved when the voting ...
On Inside the Hive, host Brian Stelter talks to Vanity Fair’s Abigail Tracy and veteran political journalist John Harwood about Kevin McCarthy’s failure to control his House GOP caucus as a government shutdown looms. “You talk to pretty much any lawmaker on the Hill, and there’s so...
Former Republican CongressmanAdam KinzingerslammedKevin McCarthyon Thursday, using a common slur to attack the newly-minted Speaker of the House while observing he will say anything he needs to to stay in power. “Kevin’s a piece of shit,” Kinzinger, who represented Illinois for...
The news of the meeting was first reported byPunchbowlNews. Despite political pressure from some in the GOP that the party must move on from Trump, McCarthy is eyeing what will win him back the House and possibly catapult him to the speakership. Sources told CNN he is eager to realign hi...
Washington CNN — House Republicans on Wednesday sharply repudiated Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s comments that suggested the Benghazi oversight committee had succeeded by tarnishing Hillary Clinton, saying it undermined their party’s messaging on a key issue and raised questions about his ability to be ...
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...
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will leave Congress at the end of the year. | Francis Chung/POLITICO END OF AN ERA —Following a 16-year rise in Congress,KEVIN McCARTHYfinally landed the position he’d long sought at the start of 2023: speaker of the House. But after just nine tumul...