President Joe Biden joked on Wednesday that partisanship is a snap
Hosted House and Senate GOP Leaders Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
First time the Big Four met with Biden at White House since he took office
McCarthy joined the meeting just after he led the vote to oust Liz Cheney for not backing Donald Trump s election fraud claims
McCarthy and Biden s relationship could be the most tense as the House minority leader made it clear he backs the claim Biden s 2020 win is illegitimate
White House said meeting was to discuss policy areas of mutual agreement
On Wednesday morning, House Republicans voted to strip Liz Cheney of her No. 3 position in party leadership over her continued criticism of former President Donald Trump. The Wyoming representative has long had a complicated relationship with other Republicans, but her refusal to fall in line behind Trump’s election lies galvanized that resistance and cost her the support of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. On Wednesday’s episode of What Next, I spoke to Eliana Johnson, editor in chief of the conservative Washington Free Beacon, about how Cheney got here and what her ouster says about the future of the Republican Party. This conversation, recorded Tuesday morning, has been edited and condensed for clarity.
The chain between Trump’s misinformation and violent anger remains unbroken Philip Bump In his prepared remarks for a hearing focused on the Jan. 6 violence at the U.S. Capitol, former acting defense secretary Christopher Miller made two remarkable statements. The first was a reworking of a point he’d made previously. “I have been asked by the media whether I believe the president” his former boss, Donald Trump “was responsible for the events that occurred on January 6. I stand by my prior observation that I personally believe his comments encouraged the protesters that day, but I am not in a position to make an official assessment of his responsibility,” Miller said.
US House Republicans on Wednesday ousted conservative Liz Cheney, a fierce critic of Donald Trump, from her powerful leadership role in a move that tightens the former president’s grip on the party.