The political disarray will dismay all who look to the US for coherent leadership on the global stage
Former speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy walks back to his office after the House of Representatives voted to remove him from his leadership position at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 03 October 2023For the first time in the history of the United States, the speaker of the House of Representatives was deposed last week when awith a majority of six in the 435-seat chamber.
McCarthy’s fate was sealed when a bipartisan agreement to avert a federal government shutdown passed on September 30th despite opposition from Republican right-wingers. Republican moderates argue he could have kept his job with Democrat votes, ignoring the fact that this would have undermined him in the eyes of his own party, and that Democrats were disinclined to vote for a man who has supported Donald Trump’s false claim that he won the 2020 presidential election.
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