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After the vote was canceled, Rep. Scott Perry – Chair of the Freedom Caucus – of Johnson’s appropriations proposals, “We’ve had enough.
A group of five lawmakers were early leaders of the charge against Mr. McCarthy, with Representatives Matt Gaetz of Florida and Andy Biggs of Arizona, the former Freedom Caucus chairman, emerging as the most vocal.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-republican-opposition.html
And Burchett isn’t even one of the worst of the lot — he supported McCarthy’s speaker bid on every vote and isn’t officially a member of the Freedom Caucus.
Source: https://www.nationalmemo.com/danziger-draws-2661228904
At an event last summer, for example, Republican Rep. Andy Biggs, the former chair of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, talked up if the GOP took control of the House.
Before the 14th vote, McCarthy had flipped 15 conservative holdouts to become supporters, including the chairman of the chamber's Freedom Caucus, leaving him just a few shy of seizing the gavel for the new Congress.
Source: https://www.newser.com/story/330023/in-14th-round-mccarthy-falls-short-by-one-vote.html
But some conservatives, organized around the House Freedom Caucus — as well as the score of Republicans who opposed McCarthy’s bid to become speaker — have taken combative stands as they try to disrupt business as usual in Washington.
C.), who would go on to start the House Freedom Caucus and repeatedly frustrate party leadership.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/06/ron-desantis-house-00085523
Donalds, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, backed Rep. Jim Jordan in the third round of voting.
Either he’ll need to put his country over his position and broker a bipartisan deal in the House before the Freedom Caucus inevitably replaces him.
Source: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/debt-ceiling-kevin-mccarthy-vote-rcna80950
Fairly new member of Congress, a far-right member of the Freedom Caucus.
Freedom Caucus members said they want to the new body after the Church Committee that ran investigations into intelligence abuses in the mid-1970s, leading to significant reforms.
Source: https://theintercept.com/2023/01/05/mccarthy-speaker-republican-weaponization-committee/
Gaetz, a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, has been threatening to file the resolution to remove him from the dais ever since McCarthy was nominated speaker by a majority of the conference earlier this year.
Gaetz and Boebert positioned themselves as the faces of opposition to McCarthy, even though House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry (R-PA) led much of the substantive negotiating on behalf of conservatives.
He co-founded the House Freedom Caucus, which has used political brinksmanship - under threat of government shutdowns and even a national default on the debt - to bend centrist and establishment Republicans farther to the right.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67165183?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
In sidling up to the Freedom Caucus, he’s grabbed a tiger by the tail.
Its existence helped earlier generations of the House Freedom Caucus pressure former Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio to leave his office in 2015, under threat of removal.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/us/politics/mccarthy-speaker-rules-house.html
Led by outspoken members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of 11 Republicans broke with their party on an otherwise routine procedural vote that threw the day’s schedule — and the rest of the week — into disarray.
Mainline Republicans call the tactic “gotcha votes” while the Freedom Caucus says they’re bringing much needed accountability.
Neither the White House nor the Freedom Caucus is addressing entitlement reform, although Biden says he wants to jack up taxes on the “rich” to pay for a short extension of life for Medicare.
New House Freedom Caucus leader is no fan of Trump: 'Only person that can lose to Biden'