House Paralyzed

Dispatch from the Capitol + New Portrait Project

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s far-right flank is flexing this week after getting steamrolled in last week’s debt deal negotiation. I wrote in The New Republic about Congressman Chip Roy getting smoked in last week’s house trade. You can read my story here —

Now Roy, along with Congressman Matt Gaetz and others, are holding up their own messaging bill about gas stoves, one of many bizarre culture war obsessions GOP messaging honchos have tried to hone into attack lines in the run up to next November’s elections…