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House Republicans could face another crisis if House Majority Leader Steve Scalise fails to garner enough votes to win the speakership.
Scalise's difficulties stem from some House Republicans being upset that their picks, McCarthy and Jordan, lost their bids for the speakership and that Scalise's team was behind the shooting down of a proposed rule change that would increase the threshold for winning the speakership nomination in the conference, according to Politico.
"The majority of the majority has been disregarded by a handful of members repeatedly and flagrantly, and as a result, we deposed … our speaker a week ago with 208 Democrats," Rep. Mike Lawler told CNN, demanding retaliation against the eight Republicans who ousted McCarthy."The idea that somehow rearranging the deck chairs here is going to fix the problem or somehow that Kevin McCarthy was the problem is laughable.
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