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5:05 PM ET, January 4, 2023

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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Speaker Fight Reveals a Divided and Disoriented House Majority  —  In failing to coalesce around Kevin McCarthy for speaker, Republicans showcased divisions that portend real difficulties in governing.  —  WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday began their new majority rule with a chaotic …
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Houston Keene / Fox News:
Matt Gaetz responds after Trump urges support for McCarthy: ‘Sad!’  —  Gaetz says Trump's endorsement of embattled Republican ‘change neither my view of McCarthy nor Trump nor my vote.’  —  Newt Gingrich rips Republican holdouts as ‘blackmailers’: 'Don't know what their endgame is'
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez on conversations with Gosar, Gaetz: ‘In chaos, anything is possible’  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday said, “In chaos, anything is possible,” after she was seen in floor conversations with GOP Reps. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) and Matt Gaetz (Fla.) during the vote for House Speaker.
Fox News:
McCarthy loses House speakership in 4th round, splitting votes with Jeffries, Donalds  —  House Freedom Caucus nominated Rep. Byron Donalds  —  The House voted to elect a speaker three times Tuesday after McCarthy repeatedly failed to secure enough support to win a majority of members present.
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
One House Democrat Wants to Strike a Deal to Make McCarthy Speaker  —  House Democrat Brad Sherman floated a potential deal Wednesday that would trade Democratic votes to make beleaguered Republican Kevin McCarthy the speaker of the House in return for rules aimed at preventing a US government shutdown or a debt limit crisis.
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The humiliation of Kevin McCarthy  —  Post-policy Republicans prefer posturing and tormenting each other to governing.  —  Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy went down to humiliating defeat in his bid to take the speaker's gavel Tuesday.  Not satisfied with that, he then went down to humiliating defeat again.
Morgan Trau / Ohio Capital Journal:
‘Moderate’ Republican Jason Stephens snatches Ohio House Speaker position in surprise upset  —  Moderately conservative Republican Jason Stephens, with the help of the Democratic Party, snatched the coveted Ohio House Speaker job Tuesday from a far-right lawmaker who was already elected speaker in a non-official party vote.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump fails to move GOP rebels blocking Kevin McCarthy for speaker  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., doesn't care that former President Donald Trump backs Kevin McCarthy for speaker of the House.  —  “Endorsements don't matter to me,” said Norman, one of 20 Republican holdouts …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
What the Speaker Fight Says about the Republican Party  —  On the menu today: The fight over whether Kevin McCarthy becomes the next speaker of the House continues, and after three failed votes yesterday, his prospects don't look great.  The notion that 19 or 20 Republicans could force …
Discussion: The Hill, IJR and Dylan's Substack
Philip Klein / National Review:
Chaotic House Speaker Race Makes Debt-Ceiling Breach More Likely  —  Following the election, Yuval Levin observed that the dynamics of the new Congress would significantly complicate efforts to raise the debt ceiling.  The chaotic race for House speaker makes the possibility of the kind of breach that he wrote about much more likely.
Discussion: HuffPost, Vox and New York Post
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Trump calls for all Republicans to back McCarthy for Speaker
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Chaos Caucus Returns
Punchbowl News:
1/4/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM
Discussion: Breitbart and CNN
Kelly Garrity / Politico:
Biden: GOP speaker drama ‘embarrassing’ and ‘not my problem’
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Florida Sen. Rick Scott urges Senate Republicans ‘to be bold... stop caving in,’ in new nationwide ad blitz
Billy House / Bloomberg:
GOP Hard-Liners Angle for Plum Posts as Price of McCarthy Votes
Discussion: Fox News
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump warns lawmakers opposing McCarthy for speaker are playing a ‘dangerous game,’ the deal must get done
Discussion: The Hill and UPI
New York Times:
How Far Right Are the 20 Republicans Who Voted Against McCarthy
Matt Bai / Washington Post:
McCarthy is the last of three little pigs. He'd best start packing.
Discussion: Raw Story
Emma Pettit / Chronicle of Higher Education:
A Florida University Is Quickly Assembling a List of Courses on Diversity.  Why?  DeSantis Asked.  —  At least one Florida university has been asked to report its “expenditure of state resources” on programs and courses related to critical race theory and to diversity, equity, and inclusion …
Discussion: Florida Politics
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Washington Post:
George Santos had an awkward first day at the office  —  The New York Republican, accused of fabricating details of his biography, got a taste of scrutiny that comes with his new job  —  On Tuesday, looking very much like a freshman at a prep school in hell, congressman-elect George Santos wore …
Discussion: Insider and The Signorile Report
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Jack Stripling / Washington Post:
Fla. surgeon general used ‘flawed’ vaccine science, faculty peers say  —  But the University of Florida declined to discipline Joseph A. Ladapo, who is a tenured professor of medicine there  —  Joseph A. Ladapo, a professor of medicine at the University of Florida and the state's surgeon general …
Discussion: Florida Politics
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Court rules First Amendment protected teacher who brought MAGA hat to training  —  A federal appeals court panel ruled in favor of a teacher who brought a “Make America Great Again” hat to teacher trainings, determining it was protected under the First Amendment.
Lara Seligman / Politico:
In Milley's own words: The most striking moments from his Jan. 6 interview  —  The military's top general was so alarmed by the events of Jan. 6 that he ordered his staff to immediately start collecting “boatloads” of relevant documents for future investigations — even classifying some so that only certain people could see them.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
Financial Times:
France to send ‘tank killer’ armoured vehicles to Ukraine  —  Kyiv has been pushing its allies to provide equipment such as the AMX-10 and Bastion personnel carrier  —  France's president Emmanuel Macron has pledged to provide Ukraine with armoured combat vehicles to help in the war against Russia.
Discussion: Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Considers Visit to U.S.-Mexico Border  —  The White House weighs adding a long-debated border visit to the president's planned Mexico City summit trip  —  Migrants in Border Cities Weigh Options After Title 42 Ruling  —  Created with sketchtool. … 1x
Sky Palma / Raw Story:
Joy Behar compared House Republicans to cannibalistic turtles - and conservatives are furious  —  On The View this Wednesday, host Joy Behar slammed Congressional Republicans over their inability to unify the vote for House Speaker, calling them “turtles in an aquarium” who eat their own.
Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Washington Field Office, ATF Washington Field Division, and Metropolitan Police Department Raise Reward for Information About Capitol Hill Pipe Bomber to $500,000 … “For two years, a dedicated team of FBI agents, analysts, and law enforcement partners have been tirelessly reviewing evidence …
 
 
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Lee Drutman / Undercurrent Events:
GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker
Discussion: New York Times
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