A handful of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday (Oct 3) ousted Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy, as party infighting plunged Congress into further chaos just days after it narrowly averted a government shutdown.
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00:00 The yeas are 216, the nays are 210.
00:06 The resolution is adopted.
00:08 And with that, in a historic first, a small group of rebellious Republicans in the U.S.
00:14 House of Representatives on Tuesday succeeded in ousting their leader, Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
00:20 The office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is
00:26 hereby declared vacant.
00:29 Tuesday's moment of high drama comes after the Republican-controlled House brought Washington
00:34 to the edge of a partial government shutdown and the brink of a default earlier this year.
00:40 Camlogger Dove.
00:42 Yes!
00:44 Yay.
00:45 The rebellion was led by Representative Matt Gaetz, a far-right Republican from Florida
00:51 and McCarthy antagonist.
00:53 Chaos is Speaker McCarthy.
00:56 Chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word.
01:01 In debate on the House floor, Gaetz and a handful of allies criticized McCarthy for
01:06 relying on Democratic votes to pass temporary funding to narrowly avert a shutdown.
01:13 But McCarthy supporters, like lawmaker Tom Cole, warned their Republican gains would
01:18 be at risk if they removed their leader in a vote.
01:21 Think long and hard before you plunge us into chaos because that's where we're headed.
01:28 In the end, eight Republicans voted with 208 Democrats to remove McCarthy from his post.
01:35 No clear successor has emerged.
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