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Speaker McCarthy. But at What Cost?
The Daily
Kevin McCarthy's Speakership Threatens John Boehner
Katie Couric: The idea of having this procedure in place means that if McCarthy takes some sort of step that this right flank does not like, that any one of them is going to be able to threaten his speakership essentially by calling a snap vote. So it's really about the idea of creating this threat that is going to hover over McCarthy's speakership. And Katie, you had told us that from the very beginning, Kevin McCarthy hated this idea because it meant that his speakership could be threatened at any given moment by a very small number of lawmakers. In fact, we know from history that this group of hard right Republicans have not shied away from using this mechanism.
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