Matt Gaetz may have lost the battle, but he won the war to be the most annoying.
At around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, a time when most members of Congress would rather be asleep or enjoying a glass of 18-year-old Scotch that was paid for by a defense contractor, Republican California Rep. Kevin McCarthy was finally elected speaker of the House.
It was the 15In order to win over the last Republican holdouts against him, McCarthy reportedly had to agree tothat will give the far-right Freedom Caucus even more power than it had under previous GOP House regimes. The Caucus is expected to use this power to force government shutdowns and to investigate claims about Democrats that originated on QAnon message boards with names like Camouflage Daryl’s Patriot Zone.
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