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Spending Cuts: McCarthy becomes first speaker ever to be ousted from job in House vote

Spending Cuts: McCarthy becomes first speaker ever to be ousted from job in House vote

WASHINGTON: Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job in an extraordinary showdown, a first in US history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and threw the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. McCarthy's chief rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, forced the vote on the "motion to vacate," drawing together more than a handful of conservative Republican critics of...

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