Nine MAGA Reps Rip McCarthy For Not Caving Enough

The Hill reports:

Nine House conservatives expressed doubts about electing Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as the next speaker of the House, calling for a “radical departure from the status quo” ahead of the Tuesday floor vote.

In a Sunday letter obtained by The Hill, Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) led seven other hardline Republican House members and members-elect in calling McCarthy’s responses to their pre-election demands “insufficient.”

Besides Perry and Roy, the GOP lawmakers who signed the letter are Dan Bishop (N.C.), Andrew Clyde (Ga.), Paul Gosar (Ariz.) and Andy Harris (Md.). GOP Reps.-elect Anna Paulina Luna (Fla.), Eli Crane (Ariz.) and Andy Ogles (Tenn.) also signed.

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NEW: 9 House Republicans came out against Kevin Mccarthy’s proposals, calling them “insufficient”, suggesting they won’t vote to elect him Speaker

These nine are in addition to five other Republicans who already committed to not vote for Mccarthy

Kevin is in big trouble!

— Republicans against Trumpism (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 2, 2023

BREAKING: 9 House Republicans just sent a letter rebuking Kevin McCarthy as speaker, saying he hasn’t gone far enough. In other words, Kevin still doesn’t have enough votes to be speaker with less than 2 days until the new Congress gets sworn in. Republicans in disarray. Again.

— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) January 2, 2023