GOP hardliners revolt and derail McCarthy's agenda in retaliation over speaker's debt limit deal
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1970-01-01 08:00
A bloc of Republican hardliners took down the GOP leadership's efforts on two bills this week, a move they said was retaliation for Speaker Kevin McCarthy's deal with President Joe Biden to suspend the national debt limit.

A bloc of Republican hardliners took down the GOP leadership's efforts on two bills this week, a move they said was retaliation for Speaker Kevin McCarthy's deal with President Joe Biden to suspend the national debt limit.

The procedural vote, which was 206-220, failed on Tuesday afternoon as the hardliners revolted over their claims that McCarthy violated the agreement he resumed to secure the speakership in January. The move sank a bill to ban the prohibition of gas stoves and to impose new Hill oversight on federal rules.

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