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McCarthy held 'hostage' to impeachment demands by 'far-right nuts': Journalist

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is held "hostage in his own House" by the demands of "far-right nuts" as he tries to placate them with a rushed and evidence-free impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, wrote analyst Eleanor Clift for The Daily Beast on Tuesday.

"Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made his deal with the devil when he ceded sufficient clout to the rightest of the right-wing crazies to gain their votes after 15 humiliating ballots. That bill comes due now as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the Queen of the Extremists, puts down her marker: She would not vote to fund the government without an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden," wrote Clift. "When MTG speaks, McCarthy listens. His job is to muster majorities for spending bills that will keep the government open beyond the Sept. 30 deadline. He has such a narrow margin that he can’t lose more than three or four votes, and MTG speaks for at least a dozen hardliners."

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Trump huddles with House GOP leaders to discuss Biden impeachment strategy: report

Former President Donald Trump is talking with House GOP leadership about a strategy for impeaching President Joe Biden, reported Politico on Tuesday.

Trump, "Has been speaking weekly with House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, who was the first member of Republican leadership to come out in support of impeachment." The pair spoke most recently Tuesday, shortly after McCarthy announced the impeachment investigation would be moving forward.

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White House spokesperson blasts McCarthy for promising to hold an impeachment vote — then backing out

Ian Sams, the White House spokesperson for Oversight and Investigations, said that Speaker Kevin McCarthy promised he would hold an impeachment vote on President Joe Biden before moving forward.

Once the moment came, however, no vote happened.

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'Marge Greene's gimp': Critics pile on Kevin McCarthy over Biden impeachment inquiry

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced he was moving forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Tuesday, despite the fact that the Republicans' investigations have so far turned up no proof linking the president to his son's overseas business dealings.

Many political observers on Twitter jumped to ridicule McCarthy for caving to the demands of former President Donald Trump and his allies to launch what they see as a flimsy impeachment inquiry.

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Feud erupts between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz over Biden impeachment

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) found themselves getting into a dispute on Tuesday over who should get the most credit for the Republican-run House of Representatives launching an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden.

The trouble started when Gaetz took to Twitter to crow about the role he played in lobbying House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to launch an impeachment inquiry into Biden, despite the fact that Republican investigations so far have uncovered no concrete proof that he benefited from his son Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings.

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Rubio tells GOP not to 'trivialize' impeachment as McCarthy prepares to launch inquiry

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned House Republicans against "trivializing" impeachment shortly before news broke that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will call for a vote to open an inquiry against President Joe Biden.

“My big fear remains that at some point you trivialize this, you make it routine. Suddenly it becomes a weapon or a tool routinely used by a political party against someone from the other party in power,” he told The Hill Monday.

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House GOP 'on a path for maximum chaos' thanks to Freedom Caucus: report

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is expected to endorse an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden this week in a bid to relieve pressure from right-wing lawmakers in his caucus.

However, Politico's Playbook is reporting that this may not save McCarthy from political turmoil as members of the House Freedom Caucus may still shut down the federal government regardless.

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House Freedom Caucus member faces 'serious' primary threat over reluctance to impeach Biden: CNN

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), a member of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, has upset other right-wing lawmakers recently by sounding cautious about efforts to impeach President Joe Biden.

CNN reports that "there is a serious effort underway to find a candidate to mount a primary challenge against Buck in his solidly red district in eastern Colorado" despite the fact that Buck has long been one of the most conservative members of Congress.

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Congressman belittles James Comer for having 'low T' hearings that don't connect with Americans

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) belittled Rep. James Comer (R-KY) for failing to find anything that links President Joe Biden to an international crime syndicate.

Speaking to Dr. Jason Johnson on MSNBC Monday, Moskowitz joked he was starting to "feel bad" for Comer due to all of the failures and humiliations.

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MTG demands states secede from union if Biden doesn't stop flow of drugs into US

In a post to X Monday, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene declared that states should secede from the U.S. if President Joe Biden doesn't "stop" the flow of drugs into the country by drug cartels.

"If the Biden admin refuses to stop the invasion of cartel-led human and drug trafficking into our country, states should consider seceding from the union," Greene wrote.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene takes potshot at Biden in September 11 tribute

Monday marks the 22nd anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. While most politicians are keeping partisanship out of it—even, uncharacteristically, Donald Trump—Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene took the time to slam President Joe Biden in her tribute.

"Today, we remember the lives taken from us by the hands of Islamic terrorism 22 years ago. Americans are still dying and suffering from the toxic chemicals and dust they endured after the buildings fell. Let us also not forget the betrayal of everyone who died that fateful day by the Biden Administration who handed over weapons and ceded the territory we held in the Middle East to the Taliban, who works with Al-Qaeda, the very enemy we sought to defeat after decades of fighting and lost American lives," Greene wrote on X, alongside a photo of firefighters lowering a flag to half-mast.

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McCarthy facing revolt from 'fed up' moderates for letting extremists hold the party 'hostage'

With budget negotiations heating up and the far-right Republican Party House members clamoring for impeachment hearings on President Joe Biden, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is entering the most fraught period of his already tenuous speakership.

Now, according to a new report from Politico, the threat to his leadership is coming from GOP moderates who are furious with the California Republican letting the likes of Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) set the agenda and dictate policy.

As Politico is reporting, "interviews with more than two dozen GOP members and aides reveal that it would take only a few rogue lawmakers hell-bent on his downfall to risk McCarthy’s fate in an entirely new way, sending their party spiraling into a new period of chaos."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene busted by GOP House member over her 'absurd' Biden impeachment obsession

On Sunday, Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) dismissed out of-hand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's continued drive to impeach President Joe Biden and recalled for MSNBC host Jen Psaki that the Georgia Republican has been beating the drum to oust the duly elected president since before he took office.

Speaking with the host after she noted the lawmaker known as "MTG" seemed to be backing off a rush to begin impeachment hearings, the Colorado Republican bluntly stated it would be an uphill battle to make an impeachment trial of Biden a reality.

Along the way, he took a jab at Taylor Greene over her Biden obsession.

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"Yesterday she posted this: 'Our country deserves for Congress to vote for an impeachment inquiry for very important reasons, not a rush impeachment vote,'' host Psaki prompted. That is a bit of a shift in the timeline; a little bit of a pumping of the brakes on it. What did you make of that? "

"Well Marjorie filed impeachment articles on President Biden before he was sworn into office more than two and a half years ago, so the idea that she is now the expert on impeachment, or that she is someone who can set the timing on impeachment is absurd," Buck replied.

"The time for impeachment is the time when there's evidence linking President Biden -- if there is evidence -- linking President Biden to a higher crime or misdemeanor. That doesn't exist right now," he continued.

He added, "And it is really not something that we can say, 'Well, in February we're going to do.' It's based on the facts and you go where facts take you."

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