The Republican House Has Returned to Washington. Will Kevin McCarthy Lead It?

The Republican House is ready to take over. Nancy Pelosi has already moved out of the Speaker’s office and the GOP’s ever-so-small majority will be sworn in to the new Congress Tuesday. But even with just 24 hours left until his party assumes power, Kevin McCarthy is apparently still short of the votes he needs to take over the gavel. A group of nine extremely right-wing House Republicans wrote Sunday that McCarthy still has not done enough to win over their support. His most recent overtures in what has been a weeks-long lobbying effort came “almost impossibly late” to address… Read Full Article