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US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks during a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington earlier this month. Bloomberg
US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks during a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington earlier this month. Bloomberg
Kevin McCarthy and the telling state of his Republican committee assignments
Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute and a US affairs columnist for The National
24 January, 2023