“It’s a pathway to chaos. It’s like a shutdown,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as House speaker.
were appalled after their counterparts in the House voted on Tuesday to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ― a first in American history ― paralyzing the lower chamber and again increasing the odds of a government shutdown next month.
House Republicans are expected to vote to elect a new speaker next week, if they can find someone to do the job. Rep. Patrick McHenry has been appointed by McCarthy to serve temporarily as speaker pro tempore. Sen. Mike Rounds said that a faction of House Republicans aren’t willing to accept reality on spending when they control only one house of Congress and Democrats control the Senate and the White House.“They simply haven’t figured out a mature way to recognize that you’re not going to get everything done immediately, it takes time,” he said. “And the perfect should not be the limitation to getting something good done. Unfortunately, a lot of the folks over there want to be perfect, or not at all.
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