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Mary Trump, Lachlan Cartwright & Paul Kane

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

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McCarthy's Decision to Shut Down the House of Representatives

McCarthy's only got a margin of four, five votes, depending on attendance. And so they just decided they were going to shut down the floor of the house as a bit of revenge. What they were doing was impaling themselves. This was legislation that was all about,. you know, just sort of hot button culture issue type of stuff. The only reason this bill was coming to the floor was to appease people on the right wing faction. But they who like gas stoves. They were willing to block their own bill. So they wanted to shut the floor down. It is the, well, it's a strange world of Congress, you know,Yeah, sometimes the way

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