Radical Republicans Continue to Hold the House Hostage
The Freedom Caucus doesn’t really want to govern and the continued infighting doesn’t bode well for the rest of the GOP’s two-year majority.
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Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/BloombergHouse Freedom Caucus Republicans have temporarily halted their blockade of the House floor, ending for now a nearly weeklong shutdown of business in the chamber. The small group of rebels was pledging to block all significant legislation from passing until Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to their demands.
The group is upset that McCarthy compromised in the debt-limit deal, and more broadly with their party’s leadership — because that’s the whole point of the Freedom Caucus, to claim that they alone are true conservatives and everyone else are RINOs (Republicans in name only) who sell out the party.