House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was vacated from his office Tuesday — the first such vote in U.S. history — amid ongoing dysfunction in the Republican majority.
McCarthy’s tenuous hold on the third-highest elected office in America ended after a cadre of far-right Republicans, led by Florida Congress Member Matt Gaetz, formally motioned to vacate the chair days after the speaker negotiated a deal with the Senate, President Joe Biden and House Republicans to avoid a government shutdown.