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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nicola Slawson

First Thing: Democrats decry new House rules as a ‘ransom note to America’

Kevin McCarthy bangs the Speaker's gavel for the first time after being elected as Speaker of the House.
Kevin McCarthy bangs the gavel for the first time after being elected as speaker of the House. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Good morning.

The Republican-led US House of Representatives yesterday adopted a package of internal rules that give rightwing hardliners more leverage over the chamber’s newly elected Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy.

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