Speaker McCarthy Has Lost Control of His House

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Earlier this month, a group of hard-right Republicans hijacked the floor of the House of Representatives in protest against Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The mutiny, staged by nearly a dozen members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, raised questions about whether the speaker could continue to govern his slim and fractious majority.

Annie Karni, a congressional correspondent for The Times, explains how and why this small group of members made the chamber ungovernable.

Guest: Annie Karni (https://www.nytimes.com/by/annie-karni), a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading:


In early June, members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus refused to surrender control of the floor (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/us/politics/mccarthy-house-republicans-mutiny.html), forcing Republican leaders to scrap votes for the week and leaving speaker Kevin McCarthy facing what he conceded was “chaos.”
The group effectively shut down the House floor (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/us/politics/mccarthy-republicans.html), calling the speaker’s fiscal compromise with President Biden a betrayal.
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