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The Latest Breaking News from Kevin McCarthy

MSNBC panel left in stitches after ex-GOP congressman touts Kevin McCarthy’s return as Speaker

‘I could see Donald Trump getting behind Kevin McCarthy. What a wonderful turn that would be,’ Joe Walsh told a panel on The Weekend

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Republican congressman says party should drop ‘food fight’ over leadership

Mike Lawler says Mike Johnson should remain speaker as cracks appear between Trump’s team and far right

The Guardian - US

Democrat congressman calls for decriminalizing sex work after bombshell House report on Matt Gaetz

Michigan congressman says victims would be empowered to speak out if law changes

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Democrats get back into the fight

Democrats exploit the Elon Musk debacle to divide and demoralize Trump's coalition

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Elon blows up Congress — and the illusion of Mike Johnson’s grip on power

‘DOGE’ chief ‘detonates’ an agreement and makes Mike Johnson break his word. What did the GOP gain?

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Trump backs Johnson amid calls for his ouster over shutdown debacle

President-elect says Speaker should keep his post if he moves legislation to raise the statutory debt ceiling

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Trump Opposes Deal To Avert Government Shutdown

US president-elect Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers Wednesday to scupper a cross-party deal to avert a fast-looming US government shutdown.

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Speaker Johnson ‘faces challengers’ in new year as anger grows in GOP over stop-gap bill

Some rebels in the GOP are angry at Johnson’s handling of the stop-gap bill to fund the federal government through March 14

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Good says goodbye: ‘This Congress should have done even less’ - Roll Call

"The system is designed to protect the status quo," says the former Freedom Caucus chair, who lost a primary race to another Republican.

Roll Call

Rep. Chip Roy Vying For House Rules Committee Chairmanship

Rep. Chip Roy emerges as a potential candidate for House Rules Committee chairmanship, navigating GOP dynamics and potential leadership transition.

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House voting on $895B defense bill with military pay raise, ban on transgender care for minors

National defense would see a 1% increase in spending this fiscal year under a Pentagon policy bill that provides for a double-digit pay raise for about half of the enlisted service members in the military

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Roy, a vocal critic of spending deals, seeks Rules gavel - Roll Call

Texas Republican Chip Roy has added his name to the crowded list of applicants to chair the powerful Rules Committee in the next Congress.

Roll Call

Rep. Bishop picked for No. 2 slot in Trump OMB after statewide loss - Roll Call

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he intends to nominate outgoing Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., to be his deputy budget director.

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Matt Gaetz to become anchor on pro-Trump network after failed attorney general nod

Ex-Florida congressman pivots to TV after past scandals sank his bid to lead Justice Department

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MTG and Laura Loomer come to blows again — this time over Hunter Biden’s pardon

‘MTG admits she has done something that would make her need a pardon,’ Loomer said on X

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McCarthy says Gaetz’s AG nod was ‘a fear for all young girls’ in latest war of words between GOP enemies

‘Those girls need justice and that is not the place for him,’ McCarthy told Fox News’s Jesse Watters

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How Nancy Mace went from being a ‘caucus of one’ to the lead anti-trans voice in Congress

ANALYSIS: Nancy Mace’s turn from a swing-district mainstream Republican to a vocal anti-trans voice reveals just as much about the state of the GOP as it does her, Eric Garcia writes

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Matt Gaetz charging $500 to make bespoke fan videos on Cameo website

‘I served in Congress,’ Gaetz’s page says. ‘Trump nominated me to be US attorney general (that didn’t work out).’

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Salon

Gaetz won't return to Congress next term

The former representative ended of a return to Congress in an interview with Charlie Kirk

The Independent UK

Where Matt Gaetz will go next

ANALYSIS: Ex-congressman could return to Washington, run for governor, or seek another path. But we can probably work out where he’s headed next if we read between the lines, John Bowden reports

Salon

"Morning Joe” has got to go

Kissing Donald Trump's ring should cost MSNBC

The Independent UK

Matt Gaetz burned down the House — then was shocked to find he couldn’t do the same to the Senate

ANALYSIS: Through the Gaetz attorney general drama, Trump learned an unwelcome truth about the Senate, writes Eric Garcia

The Guardian - US

How Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz unravelled in just eight days

In a Washington farce for the ages, the far-right Republican has withdrawn from consideration for US attorney general – how did it happen?

The Independent UK

Fox News concedes Matt Gaetz nomination maybe ‘wasn’t a good idea’

Before Matt Gaetz dropped out, hosts and pundits at the MAGA cable news channel recently began urging the president-elect to reconsider his nominee of the far-right firebrand, noting that it would be a “distraction” over the next two months

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Sessions throws hat in ring for encore performance at Rules - Roll Call

Rep. Pete Sessions, who chaired the House Rules Committee from 2013 through 2018, wants to reclaim the gavel in the 119th Congress.

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