
Republicans warn of mass exodus from bipartisan group over Dem failure to back McCarthy
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House Republicans are warning their colleagues could leave a key bipartisan group over their Democratic counterparts' failure to do more to help former Speaker McCarthy.
McCarthy, R-Calif., became the first speaker of the House in U.S. history to be booted from the job after eight hardliners within his party joined with every Democrat to vote him out of it. Elizabeth Elkind is a reporter for Fox News Digital focused on Congress as well as the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and politics. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
"I'm very frustrated that none of the members who claim to be centrist… would work with us to defeat this motion to vacate," Malliotakis said. "If their whole purpose is to bring good governance and make sure that we can continue our work to get through this appropriations process in the next 40 days, they should have done the right thing here, which would have been to… keep Congress working." Follow on Twitter at @liz_elkind and send tips to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com