The 118th Congress was a tumultuous period marked by power struggles, a historic coup against the speaker, and intense battles for leadership. The article explores the key events and figures that shaped this unprecedented Congress.
The power struggles of the 118th Congress will reverberate for years to come.The most expensive House primary in history. A stunning coup to unseat a sitting speaker. The frenzied battle to succeed him. A public campaign by congressional Democrats to force their own incumbent president off the ballot. Lawmakers have grown tired of the word “unprecedented,” but the 118th Congress was unlike anything Washington has ever seen. The last two years were a story about the struggle for power.
Between the old and the new guard, the Washington establishment and disruptive insurgents, and the two sides in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. At the center of that struggle were six lawmakers who, in big and small ways, made an impact that will reverberate into the next Congress that begins in January and will certify the election win of President-elect Donald Trump.In the first days of the 118th Congress, amid a grueling 15 rounds of voting — the longest speaker floor fight since before the Civil War — Kevin McCarthy began privately expressing doubts to his staff that he would be successful. That’s when he got a call from his longtime friend, the legendary sportscaster Jim Gray. “You do Al Davis: ‘You just win, baby,’” Gray told him. Being counted out, then defying his critics has been a constant theme throughout McCarthy’s life. As a young man in Bakersfield, he was rejected from a summer internship in his local congressman’s office. He would later get a job in that office and then win the seat himself in 2007. Eight years later, he abruptly quit a speaker’s race amid a different rebellion on the right, and pundits declared his political career dead. It would take him another eight years to secure one of the top prizes in American politics.By May, McCarthy had struck a massive deal with President Joe Biden to extend the debt ceiling for two years and modestly cap spending. His speakership would be short-live
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