House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been voted out of the job in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history.
The 216-210 vote 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, brought forward the “motion to vacate,” drawing together more than a handful of conservative Republican critics of the speaker and many Democrats who say he is unworthy of leadership.
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