Oh my! Looks like the House Repubs are feeling a bit marginalized!
A day after the U.S. Senate passed a major bipartisan milestone on infrastructure, Republicans in the House of Representatives lapsed into bitter partisanship and infighting, attacking both Democrats and Republican opponents of former President Donald Trump.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans poured scorn on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and blamed President Joe Biden for a host of national ills including inflation, violent crime, illegal border crossings and what he termed politically motivated COVID-19 health guidelines.
"We just need to make sure we fire Nancy Pelosi," McCarthy said while delivering a 2022 campaign-style message that House Republicans will echo to constituents during a seven-week break that begins on Friday. Republicans repeatedly referred to Pelosi as a "lame duck" speaker.
Hardline conservatives from the House Freedom Caucus, which includes some of Trump's staunchest allies, later called for Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger to be ousted from the party caucus for joining a House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters despite Republican opposition to the panel.
The House Republican invective contrasted with actions in the evenly split Senate, which advanced U.S. Senate advances roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on Wednesday and then passed a $2.1 billion emergency measure to aid Capitol security and Afghan allies on Thursday in a 98-0 vote.
A Cheney spokesman said in a statement that Freedom Caucus members "represent a dangerous rot that is rooted in the Big Lie, conspiracy theories, bigotry and disrespect for the rule of law and our law enforcement."
"These are the same members who push conspiracy theories to their constituents and outright lie for their own personal gain," a Kinzinger spokeswoman said.
A day after the U.S. Senate passed a major bipartisan milestone on infrastructure, Republicans in the House of Representatives lapsed into bitter partisanship and infighting, attacking both Democrats and Republican opponents of former President Donald Trump.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans poured scorn on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and blamed President Joe Biden for a host of national ills including inflation, violent crime, illegal border crossings and what he termed politically motivated COVID-19 health guidelines.
"We just need to make sure we fire Nancy Pelosi," McCarthy said while delivering a 2022 campaign-style message that House Republicans will echo to constituents during a seven-week break that begins on Friday. Republicans repeatedly referred to Pelosi as a "lame duck" speaker.
Hardline conservatives from the House Freedom Caucus, which includes some of Trump's staunchest allies, later called for Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger to be ousted from the party caucus for joining a House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters despite Republican opposition to the panel.
The House Republican invective contrasted with actions in the evenly split Senate, which advanced U.S. Senate advances roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on Wednesday and then passed a $2.1 billion emergency measure to aid Capitol security and Afghan allies on Thursday in a 98-0 vote.
A Cheney spokesman said in a statement that Freedom Caucus members "represent a dangerous rot that is rooted in the Big Lie, conspiracy theories, bigotry and disrespect for the rule of law and our law enforcement."
"These are the same members who push conspiracy theories to their constituents and outright lie for their own personal gain," a Kinzinger spokeswoman said.