Who Will Replace Kevin McCarthy?
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Since a faction of far-right Republicans ousted Kevin McCarthy as speaker, Luke Broadwater, congressional reporter for The New York Times, talks about the candidates vying to replace him, and what it all means for the next potential government shutdown, and other House business.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's the Brian Lerishow on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:12.2 | So what happens now after the fall of Kevin McCarthy? |
| 0:15.1 | If the leading candidate for Speaker now endorsed as of this morning, if you haven't heard |
| 0:20.0 | this yet, by Donald Trump, is Jim Jordan, the Freedom Caucus member from Ohio who also |
| 0:27.1 | chairs the House Judiciary Committee, how does Congress avoid a government shutdown |
| 0:32.5 | under him when the current short-term measure that McCarthy fell on a sort to pass expires |
| 0:38.1 | next month? |
| 0:39.3 | And what about funding for Ukraine? |
| 0:40.9 | That was left out of the stopgap measure to get enough Republican votes. |
| 0:45.5 | Supporters of Ukraine thought it would be easy enough to pass Ukraine aid separately, |
| 0:49.9 | but now that's more endowed. |
| 0:51.5 | The vote for Speaker is now scheduled for next Wednesday. |
| 0:54.9 | The New York Times article this morning has the headline Opposition to Ukraine aid becomes |
| 1:00.2 | a litmus test for the right. |
| 1:03.3 | One of the contributors to that article is New York Times Congressional reporter Luke |
| 1:07.2 | Broadwater. |
| 1:08.2 | He joins us now. |
| 1:09.2 | Thanks for coming on, Luke. |
| 1:10.2 | Welcome back to WNYC. |
| 1:11.2 | Hey, good morning. |
| 1:12.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:14.2 | Let's start with the Trump endorsement posted early this morning. |
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