Among the targets is Ron DeSantis, the hard-right Florida governor and for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/12/california-gavin-newsom-biden-president-2024

And with hard-right lawmakers empowered to derail spending bills or call for the speaker’s removal at any moment, some worried the chamber would be dysfunctional and paralyzed from the start.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/politics/mccarthy-house-speaker-republicans.html

As House majority leader, he frequently undercut House Speaker John Boehner during his negotiations Mr Obama, when the new breed of hard-right conservatives demanded aggressive spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit.

Source: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kevin-mccarthy-congress-resigns-district-b2460909.html

Before the vote, a surreal Republican-against-Republican debate played out on the House floor as members of the hard-right railed against their own Speaker and verbally sparred with Mr. McCarthy’s defenders.

Source: https://nationwideradiojm.com/republicans-boot-mccarthy-as-house-speaker/

Bush rebuked the hard-right Republicans after portrayed Donalds’ nomination as historic.

Source: https://www.gopusa.com/squad-member-cori-bush-says-house-speaker-nominee-byron-donald-is-perpetuating-white-supremacy/

But The Daily Telegraph, which leans to the right, focused on the potential upside for Mr. Trump with his hard-right political base, declaring, “Indictment is a golden opportunity for Trump.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/world/europe/trump-indictment-world-leaders.html

Conditions in the West Bank have worsened under Netanyahu's hard-right government with more Israeli raids and assaults by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages, and the Palestinian Authority called for an emergency Arab League meeting.

Source: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/deaths-pass-1100-israel-retaliates-after-hamas-attacks

Even though Republicans own 222 seats, a coalition of 19 hard-right Republicans has formed to oppose him.

Source: https://ksusentinel.com/2023/01/04/kevin-mccarthy-loses-speaker-votes-after-the-chaos-in-the-us-house/

Fanning anti-German sentiment offers a way for Law and Justice to deflect blame for the blocked and much-needed E.U. relief funds and to rally some of its hard-right voters in anticipation of this fall’s election, which is expected to be close.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/magazine/poland-eu-ukraine-war.html

He’s been indicted 91 times and is unfit for public office, but his hard-right supporters, including many Congressional Republicans, are too afraid of his influence to speak up.

Source: https://seattlemedium.com/out-with-the-old-2023-news-that-will-haunt-us-in-2024-2/

He’s trying to allow the hard-right and pragmatic Republicans equal seats at the table.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/01/28/inside-mccarthys-house-famous-friends-and-hard-realities/

How this gets resolved is an open question – either McCarthy somehow wins over the hard-right members who are steadfastly holding out against him or he bows out, clearing the way for someone else.

Source: https://news.wgcu.org/government-politics/2023-01-04/this-was-supposed-to-be-kevin-mccarthys-moment-instead-gop-chaos-reigns

In one of his first acts in Congress, Ogles joined with a gang of hard-right Republicans to Kevin McCarthy for the House speaker, a move which triggered an embarrassing saga for the GOP and was condemned by Republican leadership.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/koch-brothers-afp-action-advocacy-far-right-republicans

It’s an ambitious agenda that may please hard-right conservatives.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/21/border-bidens-covid-house-gop-casts-wide-net-in-probes/

McCarthy had pledged to “battle on the floor” for as long as it would take to overcome hard-right Republicans who were refusing to give him their votes.

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/kevin-mccarthy-falls-short-in-first-vote-for-speaker-of-the-house-20230104-p5ca7n.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

McCarthy, pressured by his hard-right flank, has gone from saying “no blank checks” for Ukraine, with the focus being on accountability, to describing the Senate’s approach as putting “Ukraine in front of America.”

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/2023/10/01/ukraine-aid-dropped-from-government-funding-bill-that-raises-questions-about-future-u-s-support/

McCarthy, who clinched the speakership after 15 votes in January, was ousted from his position in October after hard-right conservatives lodged an effort to displace him.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/08/after-trump-failed-to-save-his-speakership-kevin-mccarthy-comes-out-to-support-his-2024-bid-00130927

Mr. Rutte has had to guard his right flank against surging populists and a longstanding hard-right party.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/world/europe/far-right-parties-are-rising-to-power-around-europe-is-spain-next.html

New House Speaker Mike Johnson may already be losing his with the hard-right lawmakers who are making the Republican majority and the nation ungovernable as time races down to yet another federal funding cut-off.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/11/13/government-shutdown-looms-as-new-speaker-struggles-to-control-hardliners/

Overall, the legislation is a designed to be a marker for Republicans, a bill that could unite what McCarthy’s team has called the “five families” — the often warring factions of conservatives and hard-right Republicans in the House GOP majority.

Source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/apr/19/biden-mccarthy-in-different-worlds-on-debt-standoff/