Tag Archives: Kevin McCarthy

Axios reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) — who helped lead the unsuccessful effort to deny Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) speakership bid —said Tuesday that McCarthy is “out of compliance” with the terms of the deal he made with conservatives to become speaker. The Florida Republican laid out a scenario of starting “every single day in Congress with the prayer, the pledge …

CNN reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that he endorsed launching a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. McCarthy was also expected to make a forceful pitch at a Thursday special conference meeting on investigations among House Republicans that opening an impeachment inquiry into Biden is the next logical step, sources familiar tell CNN. The development comes as …

Punchbowl News reports: Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans to tell House Republicans in a closed meeting this week that launching an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is the “logical next step” in the GOP’s probes of the president and his son, Hunter Biden. McCarthy and the House Republican leadership scheduled a closed-door session for Thursday morning so that members could …

The Daily Beast reports: A group of seven activists were arrested for unlawful entry on Monday morning after storming House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office to demand the passage of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Capitol Police confirmed to The Daily Beast. The activists—which Health Global Access Project and Housing Works confirmed on Twitter belonged to their groups—chanted “pass …

Politico reports: Kevin McCarthy is facing the greatest peril to his speakership since he clawed his way into the job eight months ago, with multiple factions of his party feuding and a looming revolt ahead during the battle to fund the government. Ultra-conservative members of the House GOP are talking in unsubtle terms about turning on McCarthy if he does …

Courthouse News reports: House Republicans have faced pressure from news outlets in recent months over access to the Jan. 6 tapes, after then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced this past February that he had been given access to roughly 44,000 hours of closed-circuit television footage from the day of the Capitol riot. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who made the decision …

Axios reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said in an interview published Friday that the House would have to vote before opening an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Such a vote could prove highly charged for some of McCarthy’s most vulnerable members, many of whom represent in districts Biden won in 2020. Some Republicans have said that congressional investigations into …

CNN reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and top Republicans have begun to strategize about how to move forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden this fall – the latest sign that the House GOP is seriously laying the groundwork to initiate rare proceedings against the current president. In recent weeks, McCarthy has privately told Republicans he plans to …

The Hill reports: Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) said Tuesday that a threat to Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R) Speakership is “inevitable” if he does not meet conservative demands and requires help from Democrats to avert a government shutdown. “It’s going to be detrimental to leadership in the House, if they blow off the concerns of the people like myself and the …

A reminder about the movie via NPR: Jim Caviezel has been a prominent promoter of the false, violent QAnon conspiracy theory — specifically, the baseless claim that an international cabal of elites is abusing and killing children to extract a substance called adrenochrome. In press appearances promoting Sound of Freedom, Caviezel continues to spout QAnon falsehoods. On a recent episode …

Axios reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday raised a possible “impeachment inquiry” into President Biden. McCarthy has dangled impeachment against Biden cabinet officials, but this is the closest he’s come to making that threat against the president personally. The House speaker went so far as to kill a right-wing effort to hold a House vote on impeaching Biden …

Playbook reports: After Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested on national television last month that Trump may not be the GOP’s best presidential candidate in 2024, the former president was furious — and wanted the California Republican to rectify the slight immediately. “He needs to endorse me — today!” Trump fumed on his way to a campaign event in New Hampshire, according …

Media Matters has the transcript: JESSE WATTERS (HOST): Speaker, what’s going on with this looming indictment of Donald Trump? This would be the second from Joe Biden’s Justice Department. Can the House of Representatives do anything about that? KEVIN MCCARTHY (GUEST): Well, the one thing we can do is continue to put forth showing the two different judicial systems in …

The New York Times reports: Republicans on Friday rammed through the House a deeply partisan defense bill that would limit abortion access, transgender care and diversity training for military personnel, setting up a showdown in the Senate that could imperil the crucial annual measure to provide a pay raise for troops, set defense policy to counter U.S. adversaries and sustain …

Politico reports: Kevin McCarthy is risking Donald Trump’s wrath by not officially endorsing his third White House bid, but the speaker is also fulfilling an important mission: sparing the House GOP a civil war over 2024. While scores of McCarthy’s members have already backed Trump, plenty of other Republicans are steering clear of the polarizing former president in the GOP …

CNN reports: House Republicans are preparing to let the push for potential impeachment proceedings dominate their agenda over the next few months, as Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces growing pressure from an increasingly restive right flank eager to take aim at President Joe Biden and his Cabinet. The increased focus on impeachment — with Biden’s attorney general and homeland security secretary …

CNN reports: Speaker Kevin McCarthy has scrambled to contain the fallout after he questioned whether former President Donald Trump is the strongest candidate in the 2024 presidential race – comments that outraged Trump allies. McCarthy called Trump Tuesday morning to apologize, two sources familiar told CNN. The call came after McCarthy said during a CNBC interview that he thinks Trump …

CNN reports: Advisers and allies to former President Donald Trump are expressing outrage after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that he thinks Trump can win in 2024, but does not know if he is the “strongest” candidate. “I’ve been fielding calls on this since it happened,” one Trump ally told CNN, referring to McCarthy’s comments. “People are not happy. What …

NBC News reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Tuesday expressed some doubt that former President Donald Trump is the best GOP candidate to defeat President Joe Biden and win back the White House next year. Asked if Trump can win the general election given two criminal cases in which he’s the defendant, McCarthy signaled that the former president may …

Mediaite reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) joined Fox & Friends on Monday and unequivocally declared he did not support fabulist Rep. George Santos’s (R-NY) reelection bid. After a quick exchange about California Governor Gavin Newsom, Kilmeade asked, “George Santos -you are part of his reelection campaign?” McCarthy laughed out loud and answered, “No, I am not. No, he shouldn’t …