BY EMILY BROOKS AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
Already in uncharted territory, House Republicans are navigating even more surprise waves as they race to select a replacement for former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) next week. The normally internal, relationship-based process is getting a swath of outside attention — a reality that is not sitting well with many in the House GOP. |
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BY EMILY BROOKS AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
House Republicans are eyeing changing internal party rules to temporarily raise the threshold needed to nominate a Speaker, with the intention of avoiding the sort of days-long, multi-ballot election that took place on the House floor in January. A group of 94 House Republicans — more than 40 percent of the conference — signed a letter to Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) and Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Friday asking for a special conference meeting to change the rules. |
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced Friday that he is not resigning from his seat and plans to run for reelection in 2024, shooting down reports that he is considering stepping down following his stunning ouster as Speaker earlier this week. "I'm not resigning. I got a lot more work to do," McCarthy told reporters in the Capitol. |
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is facing the threat of a primary challenge after her vote to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as Speaker. Mace joined a handful of GOP members led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) in voting to remove McCarthy from his leadership post on Tuesday. While some of those votes were expected, the South Carolina Republican's vote was seen as a surprise. |
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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) would not say Friday who he supports in the race to replace him, but he did note that former President Trump would not be among those voting, despite his endorsement of Rep. Jim. Jordan (R-Ohio). "Only members vote," McCarthy told reporters when asked for his opinion on Trump. "I think the members can sit down and they can make the decision." |
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Former President Trump spent much of this week sitting at a defense table inside New York's Supreme Court, sometimes grumbling, scowling or throwing his hands up before exiting to deliver fiery stump speeches in the courthouse hallways. Meanwhile, his political operation persisted, conducting a coordinated campaign to counterprogram his legal woes by blasting out fundraising emails and posts to Truth Social that squarely targeted the judge in the case, his clerk and the New York attorney general, all of whom sat just feet away from Trump and his legal team. |
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A New York appeals court declined to temporarily pause former President Trump's civil fraud trial but did halt the cancellation of Trump's business licenses until after an appeals court hears his case. The order follows a Friday motion filed by Trump's legal team to stay the trial and the enforcement of an earlier ruling issued by the New York Supreme Court that found Trump and his businesses liable for fraud. |
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Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday denied a suggestion that she broke a promise to Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) when he was removed from the role during this week's historic vote. "Kevin McCarthy says that you essentially broke a promise to him to keep Democrats with him if there was a vote against him. Is that not true?" host Elex Michaelson asked Pelosi during a recent interview on "The Issue Is" from Fox 11 Los Angeles. |
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Friday condemned the efforts taken by Republicans to kick two senior Democrats out of their offices in the Capitol. The decision to remove former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) from their offices was "petty, partisan and petulant," Jeffries wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post. |
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OPINION | With the successful betrayal of the House Republican Conference completed, it is clear the GOP faces two challenges. One is small. The other is enormous. The small dilemma is to elect a new Speaker. It is a difficult job. The prospect of dealing with Republicans who rely on Democratic votes to defeat their own conference is likely disgusting to most. There is a deep grassroots desire for anger and upheaval. But rest assured: Several people will be willing to serve as Speaker. |
OPINION | Raise your hand if you dread the long and arduous journey to Election Day 2024. Then wave if you are prematurely exhausted by a presidential race in which two stubborn men born in the 1940s refuse to retire and are itching for a rematch — and in which, for the one man to win, the other probably must be on the ballot. Most registered voters cringe at the thought of a second Joe Biden versus Donald Trump contest. According to Monday's Monmouth University poll, 52 percent of Republicans are "not at all enthusiastic" about former President Trump becoming the Republican presidential nominee, and 53 percent of registered Democrats feel the same about President Biden. |
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Among the issues the Senate majority leader said he hoped to address with top Chinese officials were economic reciprocity and fentanyl. Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation on Friday to China, where the group plans to meet with top government and business leaders at a time of rising tensions between the United States and Beijing. |
BY ALEXANDER SAEEDY AND DANNY DOUGHERTY |
The crypto exchange FTX went bust last year after executives spent billions in customer funds they had promised to safeguard. The tab was $7.7 billion, a Wall Street Journal analysis of company disclosures and legal filings shows. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and senior staff spent customer funds on technology investments, luxury real estate and political contributions, among other things. |
BY JOSEF FEDERMAN AND ISSAM ADWAN |
JERUSALEM (AP) — The ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land and sea, catching the country off guard on a major holiday. |
BY KEVIN SULLIVAN AND CLARA ENCE MORSE |
TAYLORVILLE, Ill. — On a warm Friday night in the St. Mary's Catholic Church parking lot, sweating men sipping cold beers dipped fish fillets into bubbling deep fryers as children played on the bouncy castle. This down-home fish fry used to be a regular stop for U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, a moderate Republican who grew up in this former coal town in Central Illinois. But that was before new district lines drawn in 2021 pushed him into far more conservative terrain — and into competition with a fellow GOP incumbent. |
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