The election of the president of the United States House of Representatives, and with it the legislative action, was hampered by the rejection of a group of representatives. 20 congressmen from the far right wing of the Republican Party California congressman Kevin McCarthy said the formation chose to run for office after regaining a majority in the Lower House in November’s legislative election.
While there are nuances between them, a few common lines help to paint the overall portrait of this group, which is holding its own formation hostage, subject to insults like “” from their backup friends.Taliban”, “clowns” and “damned people”.
They combat supposedly, against the ‘status quo’ and against a leadership and apparatus accused them of being too inconsistent with their formulas and traditions. political system they see as failing and corruptbut also populism uglier And they, A new generation of personalist politicians in the style of Donald Trumpin the center create your own brandthey do chaos and show his way of doing politics, they openly despise institutions and they put their own interests ahead of the party or country. “They have little interest in legislating, and they care more. burn down the republican leadership structure”said Republican strategist Karl Rove.
Freedom Group
Most of the 20 people are members. Freedom Groupan informal grouping within the committee of the Republic established in 2015 and brought together representatives of extremists tea party and those who will later become its senior representatives trump card.
With around 30 congressmen now, this group represents the most far-right faction within the Republican formation in the Lower House. And while some of the leading members of the group liked it Marjorie Taylor Greene After receiving promises from McCarthy of committee appointments that would give him more real power, they sided with him, with the rebels finding his many concessions unsatisfactory for the time being.
Trump support and election denial
Most of the “rebels” Comfortably elected in solid Republican neighborhoods in November15 of them renewed their seats and five became new congressmen. Almost all of them were supported by the former president in their campaigns. donald trump.
This support is not surprising. What is called the great majority “election deniersEmbracing Trump’s “big lie” about a non-existent election fraud that he allegedly lost to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, questioning the legitimacy of these legitimate results in various ways and challenging the electoral system.
That doesn’t make them any different from the majority of Republicans elected to the House of Representatives in November (of which 175 again fall into the rejection category, and 157 vote for McCarthy on Tuesday and Wednesday). And 14 of the 20 rebels who re-positioned in November Voted against affirming Biden’s victory after the attack on the Capitolsomething that a total of 139 Republican congressmen, including himself, did. McCarthy or Steve ScaliseThe name is being considered as a possible alternative to ‘speaker’.
This trump effect in these assistants evaporated. And on Wednesday, after the former president urged them to support McCarthy and called them in person, they completely ignored his message, and on the fourth, fifth, and sixth ballots, none of them changed their votes against the Californian. In fact, in a speech to the House of Representatives, radical Colorado congressman Lauren Boebert urged “his favorite president” to pressure McCarthy to withdraw his “speaker” nomination, not them.
“The movement eclipsed Trump’s leadership.”, John Fredericks, a conservative radio commentator who presided over the former president’s campaigns in Virginia, told The New York Times. “Movement embraces chaos.”
hard exit
Five 20 people (Andy Biggs, Bob Good, Matt Gaetz, Matt Rosendale and Ralph Norman)”never kevin”. According to Politico, Norman’s name has since disappeared from the list, but was changed to Boebert’s. And McCarthy’s unwavering refusal makes the Californian’s election impossible for now, because given the volatile majority of 222 seats compared to 112 Democrats, he can only afford to lose four supports if all representatives vote in nominal terms.
What do they want?
Ultras’ demands for rebellion against McCarthy, power and visibilityhas a strong personal component. On paper, they want the agenda of the Lower House to reflect themselves more prominently. ultra conservative agenda and the movement has more weight against the leadership and the device. When analysts, observers, and McCarthy and their allies agree to their promising ‘speaker’ demands”move target”.
By now McCarthy has already done them multiple concessions, but it is suspected that they were sufficient to persuade enough rebels. After his last meeting with them on Wednesday, for example, he agreed to give permission. initiate a vote to dismiss ‘speaker’ if requested by a single congressman (Not five as he offered before Tuesday). This is a transfer that profoundly weakens the person who eventually becomes Speaker of the House.
McCarthy also agreed to give it to Freedom Caucus members. two seats on the powerful Rules Committee (although some ultras want four). He also promised voting to set limits when a congressman can be re-elected (another claim of the far right) and changes in the appropriations process What would they give the conservatives? more power to allocate (and limit) federal spending.
It was decided on Wednesday. Political Action committees and super committees aligned allies with McCarthy and Republican leaders who finance the races will not enter open primary races for seats conservative asylumsa response to criticism that these groups support moderate candidates rather than ultra-conservatives and extremists.
Source: Informacion
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