McCarthy faces a threat to oust him as speaker. Here's how that could work | CNN Politics
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The impending showdown on Capitol Hill over government funding represents a significant leadership test for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The road ahead is rocky as the speaker faces tough vote math, major challenges and the potential threat of a conservative revolt against his speakership.

Turns out constantly capitulating to the far right doesn’t earn you any loyalty from them – who’d have guessed? /s

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
    101·
    10 months ago

    IIRC it takes a majority vote of the House to remove him and the Freedom Caucus doesn’t have anywhere near the necessary votes to pull it off.

    • pezhore@lemmy.ml
      13·
      10 months ago

      Doesn’t matter to a certain extent. They voted how many hundreds of times to get rid of the ACA? Republicans (especially the far right) don’t give a shit about actually succeeding - they just want to go home to their districts and show they “stood up” to the anti-Trump Rinos.

      I’m just happy that literally every other problem facing Americans have been solved - otherwise this would be a really bad waste of time! /s

      • geekworking@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        Don’t you know that all of the real problems facing the country are caused by democrats, illegal aliens, rainbows, drag queens, abortion, books, and wokeness. Attacking the windmills to slay these bogeyman is how you fix everything. /s

    • svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
      7·
      10 months ago

      The Dems might join the Freedom Caucus. Removing McCarthy as Speaker may be the only thing those two groups can agree on.