Republican has vaulted from back-bench pariah to lynch-pin power player in Washington.
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In exchange for her vote for speaker, McCarthy gave Greene slots on powerful committees earlier this year. But with just a four-vote margin on any given day, McCarthy also gave Greene and the other far-right members enormous leverage over him through new House rules. They can call a vote of no confidence at any time to boot him as speaker.
You can’t call this arrangement the “McCarthy Rule,” because the Republican from California is very clearly not in charge. Instead, it’s Greene who’s got the veto power over McCarthy’s agenda now. The House is now operating under the Greene New Deal. Greene also managed to stay in lockstep with former President Donald Trump, even as he actively undermines the speaker, with no downside to her own standing at all. As McCarthy huddled in Washington Saturday to cobble together enough support to move spending bills forward, Greene was one of the only members of Congress traveling with Trump for a weekend campaign rally.
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