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McCarthy made the promise on Fox News last week, in what appeared to be, at the time, a last-ditch attempt to win hardliner support for the debt-limit deal.

The antisemitism the White House hopes to combat today rests on the history of the lynching of Leo Frank and much more.

A White House spokesperson told TPM that they’ll instead depend on the appellate process, and are 'prepared for a long legal fight'

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Ever since Kevin McCarthy was narrowly elected speaker in the wee hours of the morning after a historic 15 rounds of voting, there’ve been reports that the new speaker had to more or less sell his soul and offer up his first born to the MAGA hardliners in exchange for the gavel.
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