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The threat of a government shutdown grows as House Republicans argue
The conservative US House Freedom Caucus has said that the impeachment inquiry against Speaker Kevin McCarthy isn’t changing their spending calculations. The group has demanded that the government return to fiscal year 2022 levels. Earlier this week, Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz accused McCarthy of being out of compliance with the deal he cut in January…
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Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the house, failed to lock down support in a first-in-a century fight.
The US House Freedom Caucus is reportedly planning to vote for Kevin McCarthy on multiple ballots to elect the Speaker of the House. “I don’t think anybody from Illinois would be surprised by that vote,” former Congressman Rodney Davis, a member of the group, said. He added that he did not think anyone from Illinois…