Trouble is brewing among House Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
House Freedom Caucus chairman Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) is reportedly seriously considering mounting a bid to challenge Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to become the next Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The expected announcement comes on the heels of Biggs’ openly criticizing McCarthy last week after Republicans experienced fewer-than-anticipated wins on election night. Rep. Biggs told reporters he believes House Republicans should work to enact a more rightward agenda in the next term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think we need to have a real discussion about whether he should be the speaker or not,\u201d Biggs told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think that his statement recently that we shouldn’t impeach Secretary Mayorkas indicates that maybe we’re not going to be as aggressive going forward as we should be. I think we need to have a very positive statement of what we’re going to accomplish and do, and I haven’t seen that yet,\u201d he added. “That’s \u2014 those are things that I think we should have a very frank discussion internally about, where we’re going to be going forward.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, nearly one week after Election Day and neither party has officially won control of the House – although Republicans are projected to win by most major outlets some lawmakers want to push the elections until a majority is declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think we don’t even know if we’re in the majority, so I think it’s responsible to just look and see where the cards fall right now, and we don’t know,\u201d Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tuesday\u2019s leadership election is slated to be conducted via closed ballot and will only require a plurality of the conference to secure the nomination. McCarthy would need to reach 218 votes during the floor vote in January to win the Speakership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trouble is brewing among House Republicans. House Freedom Caucus chairman Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) is reportedly seriously considering mounting a bid to challenge Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to become the next Speaker of the House. The expected announcement comes on the heels of Biggs’ openly criticizing McCarthy last week after Republicans experienced fewer-than-anticipated wins on election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29],"tags":[10,276,118,272,273],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-2022-midterms","tag-andy-biggs","tag-house-republicans","tag-house-speaker","tag-kevin-mccarthy"],"yoast_head":"\n