Former Trump acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Yahoo News Tuesday he could not wrap his head around the intransigence on display from nearly two dozen House Republicans who voted three times in a row to block Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., from becoming the next House Speaker.
“I don’t understand it. It seems like it’s so personal,” Mulvaney, an insurgent Republican member of Congress who in 2013 voted to keep Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, from becoming speaker, said in an interview.
When pressed as to the possible motives conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus might have for opposing McCarthy, Mulvaney, who, as a House member from South Carolina also helped establish that caucus, said they were driven by a quest for fame and notoriety, consequences be damned.
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