The Republican House of Lies
Kevin McCarthy appoints MAGA extremists, liars, and seditionists to key House committees as part of a backroom deal to become speaker.
McCarthy bribed 21 Republican holdouts with key committee appointments to secure the votes needed to become speaker. This includes putting four election deniers on the House Oversight Committee. A White House spokesperson said in response that McCarthy has handed, "the keys of oversight to the most extreme MAGA members of the Republican caucus who promote violent rhetoric and dangerous conspiracy theories.”
No enemies to the right! Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Kevin McCarthy Pays Off Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, New York Magazine | 1/17/2023
By Ed Kilgore
It seems there is absolutely nothing a House Republican could do to forfeit full participation in McCarthy’s conference.
Video: 'Extremely alarming', CNN | 1/18/2023
Ex-DHS official responds to Marjorie Taylor Greene's committee assignments