https://padlet.com/moser15/g2kjbvjesijfo7if en-us 2023-01-23 16:11:11 UTC 2025-12-23 10:52:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/moser15/g2kjbvjesijfo7if/wish/2455890002 - The Freedom Caucus was launched by Ohio lawmaker Jim Jordan and ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows in 2015 with the purpose of opposing Obamacare and similar policies
- more extreme version of the right-wing Tea Party
- Trump’s most loyal soldiers
- Lawmakers: Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz,…
- seats on powerful committees, managed to strike a deal with McCarthy

Aims:
- create a high-profile avenue for defending Trump from the DoJ
- low taxes
- a small state
- deregulation
- defund the IRS (Internal Revenue Service)
      Used Trump‘s tax returns as an excuse to prove how futile major branches of the government are -> want to run the country in an authoritarian fashion]]> 2023-01-25 09:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/moser15/g2kjbvjesijfo7if/wish/2455890002 https://padlet.com/moser15/g2kjbvjesijfo7if/wish/2455891792 - A lot harder for speaker to rule: 
- He has given in to a far right Republican sub group
-The concessions which Mr. McCarthy made to the rebels can make the practical business of running the house near to impossible
 -The faction has the ability to block or obstruct legislations and insist on amendments 

-this could lead to the G.O.P being unable to make decisions]]> 2023-01-25 09:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/moser15/g2kjbvjesijfo7if/wish/2455891792 https://padlet.com/moser15/g2kjbvjesijfo7if/wish/2455904174 -Kevin McCarthy is the current elected Republican Speaker of the house of Representitives
-He won the election by bowing to the demands of the far-right Republican dissidents that only make up about 10 percent of the house Republicans conference
-Mr McCarthy though still believes in the success of the 2 year reigning term]]> 2023-01-25 09:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/moser15/g2kjbvjesijfo7if/wish/2455904174