House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) on Sunday said “the keys have been handed over to extremists” after the House elected Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to the Speakership.
“It is exactly the American people and the solutions they need to meet the challenges that were completely left out of the Speaker’s chaos we saw this week. It not only endangered our country’s national security, but it also showed that the keys have been handed over to extremists,”
Clark told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Clark underlined the unity of Democrats in their agenda after the party banded together to vote for Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) in the successive contests with McCarthy.
The Republican won the top House leadership slot early Saturday after flipping a number of holdouts who had stalled any candidate from getting the needed majority of votes, making concessions to hard-liners in negotiations on the rules package.
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House minority whip: "The keys have been handed over to extremists" https://t.co/lLD9hKuPsm pic.twitter.com/HMNsvhsW52
— The Hill (@thehill) January 8, 2023
.@RepMGS: "We were finally able to begin the new Congress by swearing in the new members. It capped five days of chaos and confusion as the Republicans struggled to elect a majority leader. Unfortunately, they were only interested in negotiating with the extremists." pic.twitter.com/26xmLMfzar
— The Hill (@thehill) January 8, 2023
Speaker McCarthy: "I do want to especially thank President Trump. I don’t think anybody should doubt his influence. He was with me from the beginning." https://t.co/IEFkpKdwiZ pic.twitter.com/rdVUQEyEQl
— The Hill (@thehill) January 8, 2023
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