Trump's support for McCarthy helped the Californian win the gavel — barely — last January. But MAGA Republicans took McCarthy down.
Kevin McCarthy , then the House minority leader, and then-President Trump at a rally in 2020. Photo: David McNew/Getty ImagesMcCarthy made to become speaker left him vulnerable to being ousted by far-right Republicans who identify with Trump's MAGA movement.
Republicans will try to elect a new speaker next week, with a government shutdown looming in mid-November if they can't reach agreements on funding plans.But later that month, he visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago to heal the rift, a turnabout that then-Rep. Liz Cheney Trump — the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination — is occupied this week with his civil fraud trial in New York.
That made the threat of removal a constant during McCarthy's brief tenure, as he struggled to deal with hardliners who wanted dramatic budget cuts and other priorites — and did not want to compromise. Now McCarthy's replacement will face a similar dynamic: A thin majority that includes eight to 10 far-right Republicans who operate as though they have a big majority.
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