Bunker USA: What Matt Gaetz and the chaos caucus want

The Bunker

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🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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On the very far-right of the GOP is a small but very disruptive group called the House Freedom Caucus. What does it stand for and how much power does it actually wield?Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan are all high profile members – what do they want? Thomas Gift is founding director of the Centre on US Politics at University College London. He joins Andrew Harrison in The Bunker. “They don’t have a real coherent set of ideas.” “Many of these individuals just like being on camera.” “There are elements of the far-right that have gone far beyond Trumpism.” Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson.. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.3	surprise removal, they'd call it the ouster of Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
1:24.4	On October the 3rd, a small group of right-wing Republicans vote to the Speaker out
1:29.0	partly in revenge for McCarthy's insufficient intransigence when it came to dealing with President
1:33.7	Biden and the Democrats. And after a torturous process of nominating Louisiana
1:38.5	Representative Steve Scalise for the Speaker's chair, even that fell apart.
1:42.6	Scalise withdrew almost immediately afterwards.
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1:49.4	spoilers, bad faith arguments and political nailism from the so-called Freedom Caucus
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