Republicans were projected to win a majority in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting the stage for two years of divided government as President Joe Biden's Democratic Party held control of the Senate.
The victory gives Republicans the power to rein in Biden's agenda, as well as to launch potentially politically damaging probes of his administration and family, though it falls far short of the “red wave” the party had hoped for.
“Americans are ready for a new direction, and House Republicans are ready to deliver,” McCarthy said on Twitter. Even though the expected “red wave” of House Republicans never reached shore, conservatives are sticking to their agenda. High inflation gave Republicans ammunition for attacking liberals, who won trillions of dollars in new spending during the Covid-19 pandemic. With voters seeing their monthly grocery, gasoline and rent bills rising, so rose the desire for punishing Democrats in the White House and Congress.
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