Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the US House of Representatives after making extensive concessions to right-wing hardliners that raised questions about the party’s ability to govern. | Reuters
As he took the gavel for the first time, McCarthy represented the end of President Joe Biden’s Democrats’ hold on both chambers of Congress.
Republicans’ weaker-than-expected performance in November’s midterm elections left them with a narrow 222-212 majority, which has given outsized power to the right-wingers who opposed McCarthy’s leadership. Several of the hardliners have questioned McCarthy’s willingness to engage in such brinkmanship when negotiating with Biden, whose Democrats control the Senate. They have raged in the past when Senate Republicans led by Mitch McConnell agreed to compromise deals.
One of those Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, warned that the concessions McCarthy made to “the extremists” in his party may come back to haunt him, and made it more likely that the Republican-controlled House will cause a government shutdown or default with “devastating consequences.”
This week’s 14 failed votes marked the highest number of ballots for the speakership since 1859, in the turbulent years before the Civil war. Allowing a single member to call for a vote to remove the speaker will give hardliners extraordinary leverage.
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