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Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as Speaker of the House of Representatives. The vote comes as part of a campaign from Rep. Matt Gaetz and a posse of like-minded Republicans who have long opposed McCarthy, who is the first speaker to be axed as a result of a motion to …

Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz on Monday evening filed a motion to vacate against Rep. Kevin McCarthy that, if passed, would oust the Republican leader from his position as Speaker of the House. The resolution to remove the speaker follows a face-off between Gaetz and McCarthy over Congress’ annual appropriations approvals, …

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pulled an end run around the far-right wing of his party, striking a deal with Democrats to pass a clean spending bill and avert a government shutdown, and GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz is so mad about it he wants McCarthy ousted as speaker. “I do intend …

In a rare moment of unity, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she would support Rep. Matt Gaetz’s efforts to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his leadership position. “It’s not up to Democrats to save Republicans from themselves,” the New York congresswoman said when Jake Tapper asked if she would vote …

Chaos has been the norm in Congress for some time now, but this week a truly noisome stench is looming over the Capitol as Republicans prepare to shut down the government. At its core, a shutdown is a failure of Congress to accomplish its most essential legislative task: funding the …

While Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) said definitively Sunday that he “will bet on Kevin McCarthy any day” amid the Republican House Speaker’s struggle to wrangle enough votes from his party to fund the federal government and stave off a government shutdown next month, one of Turner’s colleagues took a different …

House Republican leadership is sure of one thing: they’d like to start the impeachment process against Joe Biden. What’s less clear is what they’d like to impeach him over. In his first comments to the press about the impeachment inquiry launched this week, Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke about “a picture …

The House is back in session, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy‘s first order of business was to announce that he will direct a House committee to open “a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.” Notably, the decision allows McCarthy and Republicans to skirt a full vote in the House on …

Donald Trump has reportedly extracted a promise from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that the House will vote to expunge the former president’s impeachments, a deal former speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi said makes him “look pathetic.” McCarthy allegedly made the promise to Trump after enraging him by saying on national television …

Kevin McCarthy’s brain is broken. During a press conference discussing the House passing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Friday, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) claimed the bill sent a message to the Senate to “stop using taxpayer money to do their own wokeism.” “A military cannot defend themselves if …