McCarthy warns key GOP agenda could be stalled if leadership vote doesn't move forward

Key Facts

• House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy warned that key GOP agenda items, such as securing the border, will be stalled if he doesn’t get enough Republicans to support him as speaker of the House.
• House Republicans nominated McCarthy as their House speaker pick last month in a 188 to 31 vote during an internal conference meeting.
• (Fox News Digital/Haris Alic) "House Republicans need a leader with credibility across every spectrum of the GOP conference in order to be a capable fighting force for the American people," Gaetz previously said of the House speaker position.
• Because what we're finding is they're kicking out men and women that have been serving.… That's the first victory of having a Republican majority and we'd like to have more of those victories and we should start moving those now," McCarthy explained.

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