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Kevin McCarthy faces a momentous challenge to his speakership this week, as one of his most outspoken Republican critics in the House has said he will try to remove him from his leadership role as retribution for working with Democrats to avert a government shutdown. On Sunday, that critic, Representative …

WASHINGTON — For days as hard-right lawmakers voted again and again to block him from becoming speaker, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California sat on the House floor with a grin plastered to his face. Talking with reporters, he gamely brushed off the notion that his historic and humiliating slog to …

Former President Donald Trump, perhaps responding to a nomination by Representative Matt Gaetz, posted an amusing photoshopped image of what it might look like if he were named Speaker of the House. The image shows President Joe Biden delivering the State of the Union address last year, flanked by Vice …