Chaos Rules House Republicans as McCarthy Fails on Key Vote
They ‘just want to burn the whole place down,’ the speaker says of the handful of conservative members of his caucus who are grinding the wheels of government to a halt. ‘That doesn’t work.’
With the government set to shut down in just 10 days, Speaker McCarthy has unexpectedly lost a vote to begin debate on this year’s Pentagon funding bill. It’s the latest example of the speaker’s struggle to manage the most basic functions of the House as he grapples with the far right of his caucus.
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