The House Freedom Caucus revolt.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Republicans, the House Freedom Caucus, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. On Monday, Speaker McCarthy struck a deal with a group of conservative Republicans that will allow legislation to begin moving on the House floor again after the chamber was ground to a halt for a week.
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| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about some infighting in the Republican Party amongst House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and some of his fellow Republicans |
| 1:13.6 | in the House Freedom Caucus, who last week basically ground Congress to a whole, which was |
| 1:20.5 | pretty interesting. We're going to talk about what happened, how it ended, what it means, |
| 1:24.8 | some of the implications, lots of chatter on both the left and the |
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