Conservatives are paralyzing the House after rebuffing the leadership by tanking a normally sleepy procedural vote on Tuesday.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, speaks during the House Freedom Caucus news conference to oppose the debt limit deal outside the U.S. Capitol on May 30, 2023.
With just a thin GOP majority in the House, McCarthy can only afford to lose a handful of votes on any piece of legislation — giving the hard-right faction of the party outsized influence. "I don't know if the floor will be reopened. I would bet it wouldn't be. But now the true test of chicken is whether Kevin McCarthy will scuttle our oversight agenda, vis a vis, [FBI Director] Christopher Wray, as an effort to punish us," he said."I think this shows today, there are many, many ways in which we all need to be together for the Republican majority to be able to function effectively," said Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told reporters that conservatives blocked Tuesday's vote because of their dissatisfaction with House leadership.
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