Former Rep. Mick Mulvaney, a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, questioned how his old colleagues could claim a win in the speaker’s race without digging themselves into a deeper hole.
Congress is delayed by intraparty fighting over who the next speaker will be in the new House Republican majority. And many are becoming more frustrated by the revolt of a faction of conservatives that has incapacitated Congress and hurt Republicans on a national scale.
Twenty conservatives voted to block Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California from winning the speaker’s gavel two days in a row.